Jane Hirshfield reminds me of Basho, and look! She translated this one. The whole haiku is beautiful; but, to send you looking for it, here’s your fragment.
(In its entirety: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178450)
from In Kyoto / by Basho trans. by Jane Hirshfield
I long for Kyoto.
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