The verses of haiku from pre-modern Japanese literature enjoy particular popularity in the West. This form of poetry, consisting of just 17 syllables, captivates with its great expressiveness in a minimal space and remarkably transcends all barriers of language and translation through the suggestive power of its seasonal moment descriptions. A particularly impressive testament to the light-hearted poetry of this genre is the Kagebôshishû, published in 1754 in Osaka, a collection of haiku and ink drawings or woodcuts. For the first time, it presents 26 image-text pairs.