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The storehouse burned, nothing now stands in the way of the moon kura yakete sawaru mono naki tsukimi kana 蔵焼けて さはるものなき 月見哉 masahide 正秀

Japanese Scroll of Masahide - The storehouse burned, nothing now stands in the way of the moon (kura yakete sawaru mono naki tsukimi kana) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase
蔵焼けてさはるものなき月見哉 Original Scroll by Master Calligrapher Eri Takase

Abstract

蔵焼けてさはるものなき月見哉, the storehouse burned: nothing now stands between me and the moon, is an autumn moon-viewing hokku by Mizuta Masahide 水田正秀 (1657–1723) of Zeze in Ōmi, a pupil of Bashō, whose one turn is that the fire has taken away what stood in the way of the moon [1][2][3]. It is first found whole, with its author and its story, in 『水の友』, the memorial collection his pupil 松琵 published in 1724, the year after his death, whose telling has Bashō, hearing it in his hut at Fukagawa, clap his hands and call it the very soul of poetry; an older teaching of Bashō's school, 土芳's 『三冊子』, composed about 1702–03 and printed in 1776, cites a verse beginning 蔵やけて, naming no author and quoting no more, and judges it with a second verse as lofty in the saying and very vulgar at heart; later editors joined the two, which in the prints read meet only in that opening, 蔵やけて [4][5][6][7][8][9]. In English it was Miyamori's storehouse in 1932, Harry Behn's house and rising moon in 1962, and Stryk and Ikemoto's barn in 1977 [10][11][12]. The history reads the moon as the verse's subject and its turn as plain, and holds the teaching's objection beside the praise.

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Overview

The words. 蔵 kura is a storehouse for goods (JMdict: warehouse; storehouse) [13]. 焼けて yakete, burned, and so. さはる sawaru (障る) is to be in the way, to be a hindrance; the 日国 gives it as 妨げとなる。じゃまになる。さえぎられる [2]. もの mono, a thing; なき naki, there is none. 焼けて, もの and なき are ordinary words, given here in their everyday senses. 月見 tsukimi is the moon-viewing: in the 日国, 月をながめて賞すること。特に、陰暦八月一五日（中秋名月）と九月一三日（十三夜）の月を賞すること [1], a season word of autumn, and the season-word dictionary sets it in mid-autumn [14]. 哉 kana is the cutting word: the デジタル大辞泉 enters かな【哉】 as a sentence-final particle that follows a noun or an attributive form and expresses 感動・詠嘆, …だなあ, how …!, and notes that from the early modern period on it served as a 切れ字, a cutting word, of renga and haikai [15]. Word for word: storehouse burned / there is nothing in the way / the moon-viewing. Bashō's own hokku 武蔵野やさはるものなき君が笠, Musashino fields— / no hindrances now, / your bamboo hat in Barnhill's English, has the same middle phrase [16].

The poet. The 日国 gives 水田正秀 as a haikai poet of the early Edo period, 通称 孫右衛門, of Bashō's school, 膳所藩士, a physician in later years, one of the poets of 『ひさご』, with the memorial collection 『水の友』, 明暦三～享保八年 (1657–1723); the 日本人名大辞典 says he was said to have been a retainer of the domain or a townsman, worked toward the building of the 無名庵, and died on the third day of the eighth month of 享保8, aged 67 [3]. Whether he was a samurai or a townsman is disputed, and is taken up below.

Forms. 水の友 writes 蔵焼てさはるものなき月見哉 [4]. The two prints of the 三冊子 read write only 蔵やけて [5][6]. 蝶夢's 『蕉門俳諧語録』 has 蔵焼てさはる物なき月見かな [8]. A biography of Bashō's pupils of the 文政 years ends it さはる物なしけふの月, nothing in the way: today's moon [17], and Miyamori prints both endings [10]. Shiki's manuscript anthology has 蔵売て, the storehouse sold [18]. The sheet's form, 蔵焼けてさはるものなき月見哉, is the 水の友 reading in modern spelling.

The historical record

The memorial collection of 1724

正秀 died in 1723. In 1724 his pupil 松琵, whom the 『綾錦』 lists as 正秀門, of 正秀's school [19], published 『水の友』, a memorial collection in two volumes, with a preface by 露川 dated 享保九 [4]. Its account of his life, the 雅行記, opens 竹青堂のぬしハ名にしあふみのさゞ浪やおものゝ濱の産にして水田の氏なりけらし, the master of the 竹青堂, born on the shore of Ōmi … of the Mizuta family, and comes, in the last column of its first page, to the fire: 元禄の初不幸の難出来て類焼せし, at the start of Genroku misfortune came, and fire spread to his place [4]; a later typeset reads on 秋, in the autumn (§ The story retold). The facing page begins with the verse, and goes on [4]:

蔵焼てさはるものなき月見哉
とうたはれしを蕉翁深川の庵にて聞及給ひ手を打て是こそ風雅の魂なれその作者床しとて文通のえにしと成

… so he sang, and the old master Bashō, hearing of it in his hut at Fukagawa, clapped his hands: "This is the very soul of poetry. I long to know its author." And so their letters began. The cursive between these runs is read against two typesets, of 1926 and 1948 [20][21]; the 1948 typeset prints さはろ, a misreading, where the leaf reads さはる [21][4].

This is the oldest witness read of the whole verse, of its author's name beside it, and of the story. It was written by a pupil, after the poet's death, some thirty years after a fire it dates only as 元禄の初, the start of Genroku. No letter or writing of Bashō's own about the verse was found in the search windows of the 1936 collected letters [22].

The older teaching: 蔵やけて, by no one named

服部土芳 (1657–1730) of Iga wrote down Bashō's teaching in 『三冊子』 [23]. Four dictionaries at kotobank date its composition to 1702–03; 土芳's own copy does not survive, and the book was printed in 1776 with a preface by 闌更 [7]. In its second part, the 赤冊子, after Bashō's 節季候の来れば風雅も師走かな, the year-end mummers come: poetry too is in its December, 土芳 writes, in the undated print held at Takaoka [5]:

此句風雅も師走哉と俗とひとつに云侍る是先師の心也人の句に蔵やけてと云句有とふ蝶の羽音やかましといふ句あり高くいひて甚心俗也味ふへし

This verse says "poetry too is in its December," speaking as one with the common (俗): that is the late master's heart. There is a verse of someone's, 蔵やけて; there is a verse, とぶ蝶の羽音やかまし, the flying butterfly's wings are noisy. Said loftily, they are very vulgar at heart. Savor this. The Japanese does not mark number; it names the two verses together and then judges. The 1801 recut print reads the same, with a small み in place of 也 after 先師の心 [6]. Both prints cite the verse by its opening, 蔵やけて, and name no author. Ueda's English of the passage, in 1967, gives the verse as someone else's and the judgment as ludicrously pretentious [24].

How the two came together

蝶夢's 『蕉門俳諧語録』 (preface 1774, afterword 1777) repeats the 三冊子 passage with the two verses whole: 人の句に蔵焼てさはる物なき月見かな飛蝶の羽音やかましき住居かなと云句あり高くいひて心俗なり, still someone's verse [8]. The typeset of 1899 prints both forms of the passage, the short one under the 三冊子 and the long one under the 語録 [25]. A manuscript of the 三冊子, the 石馬本, in a typeset of 1953, reads 蔵燒てさわる物なき, in the search window read [26]. Whether 蝶夢 had the longer form from a manuscript or supplied it from 水の友, what was read does not settle.

The editors made the link. The 1966 『校本芭蕉全集』, on the 三冊子 passage: 「蔵焼けて障るものなき月見哉正秀」(『水の友』)を指すか。ただし同書では芭蕉がこの句を激賞したとある, does it point to 正秀's verse (in 水の友)? But that book says Bashō praised it highly [9]. A volume of 1967 says the verse is ひどく軽蔑されている in the 三冊子, treated with deep contempt [27]. So the teaching is about twenty years older in composition than the memorial collection, and in the prints read the two meet only in the opening, 蔵やけて.

The story retold

Every telling of the fire and the praise found in the National Diet Library's full-text index before 1945 tells 水の友's story. 勝峰晋風, in 1925, in his list of the poets of the seven anthologies, names no source: 元祿初年祝融の災に逢ひ、藏燒けてさはるものなき月見哉 正秀 と吟じ、芭蕉その風懷を稱揚してより、蕉門に參じ, in the first years of Genroku he met with fire, and from the time he sang 藏燒けてさはるものなき月見哉 and Bashō praised his spirit, he joined Bashō's school [28]. 野田別天楼, in 1926, quotes 松琵's account and the collection's preface [20]. 安井小洒, in 1929, prints the verse alone, with (水の友) as its source, and does not tell the story [29]. The 『芭蕉図録』 of 藤井乙男 and others, in 1943: 正秀追善集『水の友』に收める松琵の「雅行記」によると [30]. 野田 adds that 正秀 平然としてゐた, stayed calm, which 水の友 does not say [20]. The date grows firmer as it goes: 水の友 says 元禄の初; 1925 says 元祿初年 and 1926 元祿の初年; the 『俳諧大辞典』 of 1957 元禄初年(元年頃のことか), perhaps about the first year [4][28][20][31]. Japanese Wikipedia gives 1688, citing 野田, who gives no year [32][20]; Hoffmann gives Around 1688 [33]. The season, autumn, is the 1948 typeset's reading of 水の友, 類燒せし秋 [21].

Other endings, and the storehouse sold

The 『蕉門諸生全伝』 of 遠藤曰人, compiled in the 文政 years, read in the typeset of 1927, enters him: 正秀 (マサヒデ) 伊勢屋孫右衞門、ゼヽノ町人。… 藏燒てさはる物なしけふの月 [17]. Miyamori sets 月見哉 and 今日の月 side by side and says The two readings are of the same meaning [10]. Kern, in 2018, translates the けふの月 form and reads wordplay in it [34]. In Shiki's manuscript anthology of haikai poets, among 正秀's autumn verses, the second character is 売, not 焼: 蔵売てさはるものなき月見哉, the storehouse sold, and the 1925 collected Shiki prints it so [18][35]. Shiki's source is not known.

Samurai or townsman

The verse has been read as evidence for its author's station, so the question belongs here. 水の友 itself says that after Bashō's third memorial service he さる事ありて公役を辞し暫居を移し伏見の里に, for a reason resigned his public office and moved for a time to Fushimi, and does not name the office [4]. 露川, as 野田 quotes him, called him 下位に居て上位に交り、貧家にして富家にくだらず, of low place mixing with the high, of a poor house and not stooping to the rich [20]. 勝峰 (1925) has him 近江膳所藩に仕へ小身也, in the service of the Zeze domain, of small rank [28]. 野田 (1926), citing the 俳林小傳's 膳所藩中物頭, takes him for a samurai and rejects the 諸生全伝's townsman [20]; 安井 (1929) writes 近江膳所本多家の士なり, a samurai of the Honda house of Zeze [29]. The dictionaries differ: 膳所藩士 in the 日国, 藩士または町人 in the 日本人名大辞典 [3].

野田千平 (1973), publishing a newly found letter of Bashō's addressed to a 孫右衛門, writes that 従来、「孫右衛門」は『蕉門諸生全伝』の「正秀　伊勢屋孫右衛門　ゼヾノ町人」に基づいて水田正秀とされてきた。しかし、これも引かれるところであるが『俳林小伝』には「利右衛門」とある; that a local history of Ōtsu names a freight agent, 伊勢屋孫右衛門, who may be another man; that Bashō's known letters to 正秀 are addressed 「正秀様」, 「まさひで様」 and 「正秀雅丈」; and that to take his letter's 孫右衛門 as 正秀 慎重を要する, needs care [36]. 上野洋三 (1984) lists the readings: a physician, a retainer of 膳所, a merchant house of 膳所, the 諸生全伝's townsman; he follows a 明治書院 commentary that asked 商賈の人ではなかったか, was he not a man of trade?, and that commentary, he notes, cited 「蔵焼けてさはるものなき月見哉」 [37]. He concludes 裕福な町人であったと思われる, he seems to have been a well-to-do townsman; the verse his study reads is Bashō's 月しろや膝に手を置宵の宿, made at 正秀's house, and of that verse he adds that whether its host was samurai or townsman 一句の意味に直接関係することはない, has no direct bearing on the verse's meaning, though the delicate handling of that very irrelevance may bear on how it is understood [37]. Miner and Fitzsimons give both [38][39].

His name is read マサヒデ by the 諸生全伝's gloss, by 勝峰 (訓讀してマサヒデといふ) and by Bashō's letter addressed まさひで様, as 野田千平 lists it [17][28][36]; Miner reads it Seishū [38].

The verse in English

1932. Miyamori, with the story: My storehouse having been burnt down, / Nothing obstructs the view of the bright moon. … Bashō was struck with admiration at his attitude toward the disaster and then communication on poetry was begun between them [10]. His couplet was reprinted without his name in the Christian Science Monitor of 27 March 1934 [40], and with his name by Nancy Wilson Ross in 1960, and re-lined by her in 1966 [41][42].

1962. Harry Behn, finishing the dead Peter Beilenson's Haiku Harvest, having absorbed … Miyamori's literal couplets: SINCE MY HOUSE / BURNED DOWN, I NOW OWN / A BETTER VIEW / OF THE RISING MOON [11]. He reprinted it in his Cricket Songs of 1964 [43]. The house, the owning and the rising moon are Behn's; the Japanese has a storehouse, no owner and no rising.

1963. Blyth: Masahide is famous for a very pretentious verse approved by Bashō, My storehouse burnt down, / There is nothing to obstruct / The moon-view [44].

1977. Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto, The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry: Barn's burnt down — / now / I can see the moon. [12]. No earlier Barn's burnt down was found in the Internet Archive's full-text index. The barn is theirs. A book of 1986 remembers a different line from a poster, Miyamori's storehouse merged with Behn's rising moon: Since my storehouse burned down, I have a better view of the rising moon [45]. The barn line is one that later inspiration books print, and the first line English Wikipedia gave for him in 2008 [46].

Hoffmann (1986) gives Now that my storehouse / has burned down, nothing / conceals the moon, with Bashō's praise [33]; Kern (2018) gives storehouse burnt down / nothing to impinge upon / the incandescent moon, on the けふの月 form, and reads wordplay where earlier readers read stoicism [34].

What is not a source, and what is not claimed

A reading

I read the moon as the subject of the verse and the fire as its occasion. The words say three things: the storehouse burned, nothing is in the way, the moon-viewing. They say nothing of the poet's heart, his loss or his calm; the calm is in the tellings around it, 松琵's and then 野田's 平然としてゐた [4][20]. The one turn is さはる: a storehouse stood between the one viewing and the moon, and now it does not. Bashō used the same phrase, nothing in the way, of a hat on the open plain of Musashino [16]. It is a moon-viewing verse that finds a clear sky in a ruin.

土芳's objection is to that turn when it is said high: a poet who has lost his goods and announces that he has gained the moon is standing above the loss, and Bashō's own year-end verse, set beside it, puts poetry down among the year's ordinary troubles instead [5]. The objection is a real one and a teaching worth knowing. But the 三冊子 judged, together with a second verse, a verse it named by its opening, and the turn it hears as lofty is quieter in the words than in the story. I take the verse as 松琵's Bashō took it, a verse of what loss leaves open, and hold beside it that a teacher in Bashō's own school heard it as a pose. Signed, 典.

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Japanese Scrolls by Master Calligrapher Eri Takase

Japanese Scroll of Masahide - The storehouse burned, nothing now stands in the way of the moon (kura yakete sawaru mono naki tsukimi kana) in a block font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Japanese Scroll of Masahide - The storehouse burned, nothing now stands in the way of the moon (kura yakete sawaru mono naki tsukimi kana) in a cursive font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Japanese Scroll of Masahide - The storehouse burned, nothing now stands in the way of the moon (kura yakete sawaru mono naki tsukimi kana) in Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase's own style (Eri's Choice)
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Japanese Scroll of Masahide - The storehouse burned, nothing now stands in the way of the moon (kura yakete sawaru mono naki tsukimi kana) in a semi-cursive font by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
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Authors

Tim Jackowski (Systems Architect, Takase Studios, LLC) · 典 Ten (Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5, Takase Studios, LLC)

AI written · Ten wrote the history. Tim Jackowski commissioned it and answers for it.

Checked · Takase Studios (an address check by script), 2026-10-30, citations — every reference with a web address opened where a script could open it and the quoted words looked for at each; the rows that differed were text-layer misreadings, and the page images read as the history quotes them; the leaves a script could not open (the 国書データベース canvases, the J-STAGE pages, the Internet Archive fragments) were opened in the reading by eye · two fresh-context readers (Claude), 2026-10-30, every claim in the page's summary block traced to its source, claim by claim, in two rounds: the first failed on one wrong fact, conceded and fixed (the barn line had been put on posters; the 1986 poster carries a different, merged line); the second passed, with wordings scoped to what was read (上野 1984's no direct bearing is said of Bashō's 月しろや verse at Masahide's house, and the page prints 直接関係; 松琵 as Masahide's pupil footed in 『綾錦』; the 三冊子 quotes only the opening, 蔵やけて, and does not mark number; 1977 is the barn's earliest found in the Internet Archive's full-text index, not the house's)

Research depth: step 3 of our 10-step ladder, foundation complete · October 2026

Cite as: Tim Jackowski and Ten, "Philology of 蔵焼けてさはるものなき月見哉 (kura yakete sawaru mono naki tsukimi kana)," Takase Studios, 2026, https://takase.com/library/philology/kura-yakete-sawaru-mono-naki-tsukimi-kana.