Poet Chiyo-Ni

The well dipper
Has been ensnared
I will borrow water
Chiyo composed her first haiku at the age of seven. She became well known in the poetic circles. In 1774 she was ordained a Buddhist monk. She was able to continue to travel and create her poetry. Considered to be her most famous poem, it is the subject of this sculpture of “Chiyo-Ni”