was a seventeenth-century (Edo period) 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.Ueda, Makoto. "Basho and His Interpreters." Stanford University Press. 1995. 342. Retrieved on April 14, 2009.
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
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