Hori Bakusui å Â麦水 (1718-1783) was a major Japanese poet of the Matsuo Bashà  revival, writing traditional style haiku poems.
Little is known of Bakusui's life apart from his poems. He came from Kanazawa in the middle Edo period, and studied under Otsuyu. He is considered romantic by temperament, and he attempted to revive the early style of the classical Haiku poet of the previous century, Matsuo Bashà Â, from the book Minashiguri. in 1770 he wrote a book of laconic comments on Bashà Â's hokku, called Jà Âkyà  shà Âfà « kukai densho (Orthodox style of the Jà Âkyà  era: Verses with critical commentary).
One of Bakusui's poems, on the popular haiku theme of the dragonfly, runs:
Another version on the same subject is