Mizuta Masahide

Mizuta Masahide was a seventeenth-century Japanese poet and samurai who studied under Matsuo Bashō.
Masahide practiced medicine in Zeze and led a group of poets who built the Mumyō Hut.

Examples

Barn's burnt down

My barn having burned to the ground

I can see the moon.

Alternate translation:

Since my house burned down

I now own a better view

of the rising moon

When bird passes on

When bird passes on --

like moon,

a friend to water.

Masahide's Death Poem

while I walk on

the moon keeps pace beside me:

friend in the water