Basho's thoughts on...
Matsuo Basho 1644~1694
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.
basho4humanity
@gmail.com
Plea for Affiliation
Plea For Affiliation
I pray for your help
in finding someone
- individual, university,
or foundation -
to take over my
3000 pages of material,
to cooperate with me
to edit the material,
to receive all royalties
from sales, to spread
Basho’s wisdom worldwide,
and preserve for
future generations.
basho4humanity
@gmail.com
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Daybreak to Sunrise
Arising to blow on embers /
the wife of a bell-ringer.
Last night she banked the fire, covering coals with ashes to stay alive till dawn when she awakens them with her breath.&n ...
▶ Space and Time
G-01
New Years
New Year's Day/ sunlight on every field/is beloved.
Rice fields now barren expanses of mud and frost with row after row of cut-off stubble; Sun (Goddess) weak and cold yet She sh ...
▶ Space and Time
G-02
Mount Fuji
Sun hits Her forehead / on peak of Mount Fuji. 日に額をうつ / 富士の 峰 上げ / Hi ni gaku o utsu / fuji no mine age. The Rising Sun has a female face, and She bumps Head on the stony peak. ...
▶ Space and Time
G-03
Water with Movement
"The mountains in silence nurture the spirit;
The water with movement calms the emotions."
said Basho in Spring of 1690
For a while raftsman
at rest on the bank
Pilgrim-robedheart o ...
▶ Space and Time
G-04
On a Journey
Three whole years /
on a journey from a journey /
to a journey.
Here are poems, prose passages, and letters about leaving home, traveling, or returning.
One of Basho's earliest renku stanz ...
▶ Space and Time
G-05
Kyoto in Basho
Basho tells the feeling of life in Kyoto, the ancient Capital of Japan, and home of many unconventional people.
Though in Kyoto /longing for Kyoto /ho toto GI su.
Kyoto ...
▶ Space and Time
G-06
Iga Ninja – Three Prologues
Basho’s birthplace, Iga (Mie-ken, east of Nara) was also home to Japan’s leading school of ninjitsu, the techniques of hiding, infiltration and attack by those mysterious undercover agents ...
▶ Space and Time
G-07
Basho in Saga
Basho’s follower Kyorai, the second son of a doctor of Chinese medicine in Kyoto, had a cottage in Saga on the western outskirts. Basho, here for 16 days in 1691, wrote this haibun:
...
▶ Space and Time
G-08
Zeze: Resting Place for his Spirit
Zeze, in Otsu, just across the mountains east of Kyoto, was sacred to Basho: He wrote
"The mountains in silence nurture the spirit; the water with movement calms the emotions."
He s ...
▶ Space and Time
G-09
Transcending Space, Time, and Life
"Days and months are guests passing through Eternity, the years that go by also are travelers."
So Basho seeks to transcend the barriers of Time - and those of space and life. ...
▶ Space and Time
G-10
Basho's thoughts on...
Matsuo Basho 1644~1694
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.
basho4humanity
@gmail.com
Plea for Affiliation
Plea For Affiliation
I pray for your help
in finding someone
- individual, university,
or foundation -
to take over my
3000 pages of material,
to cooperate with me
to edit the material,
to receive all royalties
from sales, to spread
Basho’s wisdom worldwide,
and preserve for
future generations.
basho4humanity
@gmail.com
