#bashō

[sivavakkiyar]

In Japanese we have the word ikeru, a colloquial form of iku. It has two meanings. One is "to place flowers in a vase to revive them." The other is "to bury a corpse." Isn't there something basic in this word? Isn't this combination of life and death a measure of the world? To Christ, who was executed on the hill of Golgotha, his death was a human experience. That is why there was a Resurrection. Was that a miracle? If so, the world is full of miracles.  Bashō wrote, As you look around There is nothing Which is not a flower.

Toru Takemitsu, Confronting Silence

[nofatclips]

Haiku II by Heinali from the EP Haiku Remasters based on an original haiku by Matsuo Bashō

[besidebloomingirises]

Hi I love your blog, why the name ?

Thank you! The name is from a haiku by Bashō.

long conversations beside blooming irises – joys of life on the road

[abellinthecupboard]

37.

Reeling with sake and cherry blossoms, a sworded woman in haori*.

— Bashō, On Love and Barley (translated by Lucien Stryk)

*In Bashō's time women did not wear haori (men's half-length coats) or carry swords, so the woman in this poem is notably breaking gender roles.

[disease]

松尾芭蕉生家（伊賀市）

[x-heesy]

𝙻 𝚘 𝚟 𝚎 🍂

Autumn approaches and the heart begins to dream . . . -Bashō, from The Sound of Water: Haiku by Bashō, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

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New World by Zap Mama 🎵

[metaphrasis]

Winter solitude— in a world of one color the sound of wind.

— Matsuo Bashō, “Winter Solitude” (translated by Robert Haas)

[pathofregeneration]

Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate.

— Bashō

[zeraphimtwins]

The temple bell stops -

but the sound keeps coming

out of the flowers.

- Bashō (1644-94)

[gildedbearediting]

World Poetry Day

Another day, another thing to celebrate. March 21 is World Poetry Day, and with that in mind, I’d like to take a look at poets and poetry. While I could talk at length about William Shakespeare or William Butler Yates, I’d rather search through other voices. Voices like Matsuo Bashō, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Sara Teasdale, and Gabriela Mistral. Matuso Bashō was one of the…

[teethburglar]

初時雨猿も小蓑を欲しげなり

- 松尾 芭蕉

First winter rain/ even the monkey/ seems to want a raincoat

-Translation by Robert Hass

[onenakedfarmer]

BASHŌ

’Tis the first snow— Just enough to bend The gladiolus leaves!

[ma-pi-ma]

Da Est a Ovest

la stessa malinconia:

vento d’autunno.

Matsuo Bashō, da Lo stretto sentiero per il profondo Nord, 1702

[abellinthecupboard]

117.

To the willow— all hatred, and desire of your heart.

— Bashō, On Love and Barley (translated by Lucien Stryk)

[lunamarish]

La notte di primavera è finita.

Sui ciliegi

sorge l’alba.

Matsuo Bashō

[toiich]

Matsuo Bashō, The Sound of Water