The First Cold Shower

By Jeb on May 17, 2009 5:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) |

Some time ago when researching haiku, I ran into this "Basho classic":

the first cold shower
even the monkey seems to want
a little coat of straw

I imagined a drawing that could go with this and Mom could calligraphy. After reading later about the snow monkeys of Japan, I ended up making this:

1 Comments

mom said:

I will be happy to calligraphy this, if you would like. What do you mean that you "ended up making this"?

May 18, 2009 10:14 PM