Matsuo Bashō

life within just three lines. Haikus convey various interpretations, illustrating two contrasting ideas such as nature and humanity. Famous Japanese poet from the seventeenth century, Matsuo Bashō, is known to be the master of haiku as he perfectly captures the link between nature and human life. In his

Summary: The Matsuo Basho poem "Under cherry trees" depicts serenity and calm scenery. Basho's simplicity illustrates a lovely picnic in the countryside under a effortlessly beautiful cherry tree. This poem creates emphasis on the significance of nature's beauty. Evaluation: "Under cherry trees" by Matsuo Basho is heavily focused on imagery. As a haiku, the poem is an aid to help advocate Basho's emotions, feelings or morals. The 5-7-5 syllabic structure of this poem allows the author to communicate

I decided to choose Matsuo Basho and Kobayashi poetry for the early modern age period. I chose Masoka Shiki poetry for the modern age period. The early modern age poems I chose were heavily based on nature and human interaction with the use of some nature. The modern age poems I chose both by Shiki there was a shift from the early modern age because of the different influences and of course time period. However, all of the poems I still could connect to whether it was about nature, real life human

interconnectedness of ‘everything’. Matsuo Basho’s poem “The Narrow Road to the Interior”, is a perfect example of this point. In his poem, Basho vividly describes all that he encounters on his journey with excerpts such as “Twenty miles north of Sakata Harbor, as we walked the sandy shore beneath mountains where sea winds wander, a storm came up at dusk and covered Mount Chokai in mist and rain reminiscent of Su Tung-p’o’s famous poem” (Basho 302). It is clear Basho was greatly impacted by the sights

Born in 1644, Matsuo Basho started his young years of life in the service of the Lord of Ueno Castle to train to be a samurai. He was the youngest of seven siblings and lived in the Iga province. At age twenty-two his samurai master died. This caused him to go on his first pilgrimage to Mount Koya in 1666. He also decided that he wanted to study poetry instead of being a samurai. Basho then traveled to Kyoto and begged his master’s teacher, Kigin, to accept him as a student. There he stayed for five

meant to be a poet. It has a similar subject as “How Poetry Comes to Me” by Gary Snyder in the sense that they both are relating poetry and themselves to create a poem. Under my bed is another haiku that doesn’t have a deep meaning but is based off of Matsuo Basho’s “Under Cherry Trees”. Basho’s haiku talks about under a cherry tree whereas my poem is more humorous, and is about the underside of my bed. Clothes Clothes are debatably the smartest things ever made They keep your junk from being displayed

haiku is only composed on three lines with only seventeen syllables total. The primary purpose of a haiku is to link human to nature life while distinguishing two ideas such as continuance and change. These characteristics can clearly be seen in Matsuo Basho’s haikus in, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”. In Basho’s haiku, “Spring going-, birds crying in tears, in the eyes of a fish”; it is clear to find the common traits that make up a haiku such as “spring” being the seasonal word, the display

during the Heian period of Japan. Another important example of kiko, which is similar in ways yet also very dissimilar to Ki no Tsurayuki’s Tosa nikki, due in part to the many years that the two are separated by in terms of when they were composed, is Matsuo Basho’s Oku no hosomichi, or Narrow Road to the Interior/Narrow Road to the Deep North, which was written in the late 17th century during the Edo period of Japan. Ki no Tsurayuki’s Tosa nikki describes Tsurayuki’s return to his home in the capital

imagination and then compress it back down to size again in order to create within its limitations. Haiku is very brief in nature, and these constraints bring about new ideas which imply both power and subtlety in the same seventeen syllables. Matsuo Basho, a 17th century haiku master, had a style of writing that was simple but contained complex meanings. The meanings of his poems come from the readers personal experiences, so they can mean different things for different people. Translations

I have read and examined a short story titled, the Aged Mother. This story was written by Matsuo Basho. The authors view was to tell how a poor farmer saved his old aged mother from a cruel leader, who wanted to kill all old aged people in the country. For example, the story says, The man carried his mother to the top of mount Obatsuyama, (Basho, M. 2016). The author clearly supported the ideas presented in the story. For example, the author stated that, the ruler ordered that all old aged people