was a seventeenth-century (Edo period) Japanese poet and samurai who studied under Matsuo Bashà Â.
Masahide practiced medicine in Zeze and led a group of poets who built the Mumyà  Hut.
Barn's burnt down <blockquote>
My barn having burned to the ground<br /> I can see the moon. </blockquote>
Alternate translation:
<blockquote> Since my house burned down<br /> I now own a better view<br /> of the rising moon<br /> </blockquote>
When bird passes on <blockquote> When bird passes on --<br /> like moon,<br /> a friend to water. </blockquote>
Masahide's Death Poem <blockquote> while I walk on<br /> the moon keeps pace beside me:<br /> friend in the water<br /> </blockquote>