Mizuta Masahide

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.

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