The only substantial
collection in English
of Basho's renku, tanka,
letters and spoken word
along with his haiku, travel
journals, and essays.
The only poet in old-time
literature who paid attention with praise
to ordinary women, children, and teenagers
in hundreds of poems
Hundreds upon hundreds of Basho works
(mostly renku)about women, children,
teenagers, friendship, compassion, love.
These are resources we can use to better
understand ourselves and humanity.
Interesting and heartfelt
(not scholarly and boring)
for anyone concerned with
humanity.
“An astonishing range of
social subject matter and
compassionate intuition”
"The primordial power
of the feminine emanating
from Basho's poetry"
Hopeful, life-affirming
messages from one of
the greatest minds ever.
Through his letters,
we travel through his mind
and discover Basho's
gentleness and humanity.
I plead for your help in
finding a person or group
to take over my 3000 pages of Basho material,
to edit and improve the material, to receive 100%
of royalties, to spread Basho’s wisdom worldwide
and preserve for future generations.
Quotations from Basho Prose
The days and months are
guests passing through eternity.
The years that go by
also are travelers.
The mountains in silence
nurture the spirit;
the water with movement
calms the emotions.
All the more joyful,
all the more caring
Seek not the traces
of the ancients;
seek rather the
places they sought.
In May, rice seeds from last year’s harvest are planted in nursery beds of fine soil, where sheltered from wind and rain, in 40 days they grow to 12 inches. Basho transfers Joko’s image of rice seedlings in nursery bed to the fetus developing in the womb protected from the turbulence outside, then being born to receive love from the world. The two poets follow Lao Tzu's quotation:
“to see a thing in the seed, that is genius.”
Just as Joko ‘sees’ the nutritious “treasured grass” in the ordinary-looking seedling, Basho seeks to ‘see’ the future person in the hidden fetus. As we explore the links Basho produced between the two stanzas – the links between the green of plants and beauty of woman, between ‘treasured grass’ and beloved child – we discover a consciousness of life which Basho developed in his renku, disappeared for 300 years, and re-emerged in modern writers, for instance childbirth educator Pamela S. Nadav who says:
“There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in Creation.”
Through the genius of Basho’s links, woman merges with Earth, each making herself beautiful, for within her beauty is the power of regeneration, the power to nurture life. Basho praises women for adorning themselves. Unlike men who pay minimal attention to their appearance, women all over the world use makeup, clothing, jewelry, hair, bright colors, and patterns both subtle and bold, to produce beauty. The scholars concentrate on Basho’s austere and impersonal images – but Basho4Humanity explores the creative and inspiring female beauty Basho preferred. This single link may convince the world that within Basho poetry resides a power that could inspire a new reality to nurture and honor girls and women.
Basho wrote hundreds of poems about women and children, about friendship, love, and compassion, possibly the most pro-female, child-centered, and life-affirming works in world literature. 女性と子供達、友人や愛や同情をかんじて、 何百もの句を残し心暖かい芭蕉を広く公開しましょう。最高の女性の味方、子供目線、そして人生の応援歌ではないでしょうか
For a menu of 300 Basho articles, see www.basho4humanity.com/topic-description.php?ID=1525955995
For the entire series of Bilingual Essays, see https://www.basho4humanity.com/topic-category.php?Cat=15
For “Letters from Basho” including translation of 60 letters, see https://www.basho4humanity.com/topic-category.php?Cat=14
For Basho’s ultimate masterpiece, the tanka SPRING PASSES BY, see https://www.basho4humanity.com/topic-description.php?ID=1525958016
I plead for your help in finding a person or group to take over my 3000 pages of Basho material, to edit and improve the presentation, to receive all royalties from sales, to spread Basho’s wisdom worldwide and preserve for future generations.
The only substantial
collection in English
of Basho's renku, tanka,
letters and spoken word
along with his haiku, travel
journals, and essays.
The only poet in old-time
literature who paid attention with praise
to ordinary women, children, and teenagers
in hundreds of poems
Hundreds upon hundreds of Basho works
(mostly renku)about women, children,
teenagers, friendship, compassion, love.
These are resources we can use to better
understand ourselves and humanity.
Interesting and heartfelt
(not scholarly and boring)
for anyone concerned with
humanity.
“An astonishing range of
social subject matter and
compassionate intuition”
"The primordial power
of the feminine emanating
from Basho's poetry"
Hopeful, life-affirming
messages from one of
the greatest minds ever.
Through his letters,
we travel through his mind
and discover Basho's
gentleness and humanity.
I plead for your help in
finding a person or group
to take over my 3000 pages of Basho material,
to edit and improve the material, to receive 100%
of royalties, to spread Basho’s wisdom worldwide
and preserve for future generations.
Quotations from Basho Prose
The days and months are
guests passing through eternity.
The years that go by
also are travelers.
The mountains in silence
nurture the spirit;
the water with movement
calms the emotions.
All the more joyful,
all the more caring
Seek not the traces
of the ancients;
seek rather the
places they sought.
