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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Tigress at Daybreak
The "tigress" in this Basho renku may be animal or human. Daybreak is the Sun-Goddess giving birth to the day and maybe to life in tigress’ belly. Basho pays attention to the female. . .
W ...
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Love poem by Basho
The boss pretendsnot to see their loveyet he knows
Figures half-hiddenbehind the umbrella
Walking together in town, the lovers are surprised to see her (or their) boss coming the other way ...
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Haiku and a Child's Face
Basho wrote these two stanzas together in 1688:
Before my eyesthe scene just as ismakes a haiku -- As a child turns sevenface becomes clear
Me no mae no / keshiki sono mama /shi ni tsukuru
Yat ...
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Fear and Sexual Assault:
In 1688 another poet and Basho wrote this renku stanza-pair:
Not getting upI recognize his smelland am afraid
Wiping the sweat fromsidelocks in disarray
As he enters the room, she recognizes h ...
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M-22
Mother and Daughter III
In 1690 Kyokusui begins and Basho follows:
From slender threadslove gets so intense!
Though my thoughtsare of love, “eat something!”she commands me
Love starts out simple but someh ...
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M-23
Boy's Mischief
Knocking on back doorand running away home
She cries and crieswith never a conclusionto her hiccups
妻戸たたきて / 逃げて 帰りぬ泣く泣くて /しゃくりのとまる / 果て も なし
Tsumado tatakite / nigete ...
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M-24
Young and Helpless
Young and helplesswith bow and arrows,the boy kneels
White hair seen throughgaps in bamboo blind
The newest student at an archery dojo kneels on the floor, feeling small and weak. To this we ad ...
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M-25
Woman in the Center
Absurdly long sword /hangs from his waistEvening dusk /startled by a frog /in thick grass
To pick buds of coltsfoot / lantern shaken goes out
Kyorai begins this trio with a man and his phallic ...
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M-26
Energy From Basho
The 17th century Japanese poet Basho was a master of renku, poetry composed by a group of poets, each writing a stanza linked to the stanza by another; he told his follower D ...
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M-27
The Night Before a Battle
In the cold windat sunset, long drawn-outcries of hawks
Foretell the heads to fallin tomorrow’s battle
Kaze samuki yuuhi ni /kari no koe hikiteIkusa ni asu no / kubi o uranau
Koeki ...
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M-28
Cat Sex
She resents the snarlingcries of cats fighting
High on top,low on bottom, howlove is done
Cats and humans do it the same way: as a struggle for dominance and being on top. Not only in sex
but ...
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M-29
Love in One Basho Renku
A single renku stanza, without the baggage of the previous stanza or the very different baggage of the following stanza, can apply to a wide range of circumstances: For instance, this stanza ...
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M-30
Are You Stoned?
Evening dusk,
going back for the pipehe left behind
Rice maidens for fun
throw mud at eachother
A traveler took a break to sit and smoke his pipe; the verse does not say what he was smokin ...
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M-31
Beating Down Women and Girls
Feminist Tokuza Akiko says that in Basho’s time and society,
“criticism of women’s intelligence, autonomy, and moral worth
(was) essential to the total subordination of women that s ...
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M-32
Fickle one!
Boncho begins, Basho takes the middle, and Kyorai concludes:
His carriage pulls inthe neighbor’s gateway
“Fickle one,under hedge of spikesyou must crawl!”
Now, before he ...
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M-33
Basho's Most Erotic Haiku
On his journey to the Deep North, he is in Obanazawa, a town famous for growing safflowers and producing the orange-red dye used in make-up and to color a woman's under-kimono. A red und ...
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M-34
Sword Drawn in a Flash
Dew for his opponentsword drawn in a flash
Town notablestogether getting drunkunder blossoms
Basho uses the word iai for a practitioner of the martial art we now call iaido, the art of bei ...
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M-35
A Mole on her Face
Youngest daughter hatesthe mole on her face
Robe for dancingaimlessly she folds itinside the box
The mole does not interfere with her intelligence or motor ability, but everyone who meets ...
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M-36
Basho and Taima
Basho begins and Kikaku follows:
Miracles fromofferings to the Goddessshining on blossoms
Bird of good fortunebuilds her nest with hemp
Basho sees the Sun Goddess Amaterasu in sunlight s ...
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M-37
Misogyny and Menstruation in Basho Renku
Here in 1679 Basho begins and another poet follows:
“Weak as green willow”
the wife is despised -
‘Path of blood’her day by day miseryin the spring rain
Willow branches ...
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M-38
Penis Recalls Umbilicus
Basho totally astounds me with this renku stanza, and another poet does a good job following:
Like his navel cordhis visits to the Yoshiwarashall be cut off
He resents the thunderof the midnigh ...
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M-39
Tuberculosis
Millions throughout time have suffered and died from tuberculosis whose classic symptoms are a chronic cough with blood-containing sputum, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. The term "con ...
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M-40
Friendship
Basho writes of his friend Etsujin:
To be sure of having millet to eat and brushwood for his fire,Etsujin hides out in the marketplace,He works two days and enjoys himself for two,works three days an ...
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Dragonflies
Basho's haiku about a dragonfly contains no children, no people at all – except for the child observer – however has links to two well-known portraits of children by Japanese ...
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Chant of Lotus Sutra
I can see clearly now, the rain is gone /I can see all obstacles in my way /Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind /It's gonna be a bright, bright sun-shiny day
&nb ...
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Purity of a Woman
Two weeks before his death, Basho writes:
Madame Sonome told me that for long she has wishedto invite me over, so for the evening of November 14thwe made preparations to gather at her home.
Ba ...
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Attendant to a Child:
At a gathering the evening of 15th: Basho wrote
The moon clear –attendant to a childscared by a fox
The standard meaning for the word chigo is infant or small child, and in this col ...
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To My Neighbor:
Late at night after THE MOON CLEAR, Basho woke up with severe pain and diarrhoea. Realizing he could not attend the gathering the next evening, November 17th, he asks Shiko to bring the foll ...
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Basho's Two Death Haiku
On his deathbed, Basho awoke in the middle of the night, November 24, 1694 and dictates this poem:
In sickness:
On a journey taken illdreams on withered fieldswander about
“F ...
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Goddess of Mercy:
Kannon, originally a male disciple of Buddha, in Japan became a female Bodhisattva able to leave this world and enter Nirvana, but choosing to stay here to help others. Buddhist officials an ...
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Delicacy vs. Roughness
Basho is famous for impersonal nature haiku, but here are two of this haiku which focus on women as the center of attention: truly Basho is the poet of ordinary women alive and active.
Lu ...
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Woman Having Fun:
Basho, alone or almost alone in World Literature, portrays a woman in the center of attention, strong, vibrant, and playful (with the aid of sake), her life-force having Fun.
Basho&r ...
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Dance with Basho
Basho told his follower Doho:
Make renku ride the Energy.
The “Energy” is the ki of Oriental medicine and martial arts, and through four renku Basho shows us how to dance with this ...
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In a Hot Spring
Japan is renowned for having thousands of hot springs where people (and sometimes monkeys) bathe. Public hot springs always provide facilities for washing the body, and nowadays are almost a ...
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Women in Basho: 43 Basho Haiku A
Basho haiku are not just concerned with flowers, insects, earth, and sky: no, Basho is the poet of humanity,
and his sketches of women and girls are masterpieces of this art form.
Many sp ...
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Night Soil and New Life
Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.
...
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Rape of Young Murasaki
In Chapter V of the Tale of Genji, the young Genji kidnaps 9-year-old Murasaki to raise her in seclusion and nurture her to become the love of his life when she matured. In Chapter IX, ...
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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
