#matsu basho

[dabiconcordia]

The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms. ― Matsuo Basho

what of the oak it has eyes-  only for an oak ― Malabu

[dabiconcordia]

The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.                    Matsuo Basho

what of the oak it has eyes-  only for an oak                   Malabu

[nonsemplice]

stormy sea— stretching out over Sado, Heaven’s River

Matsu Basho

[insight-doc-blog]

[morgancunninghamillustration]

Haiku projects from this past semester at school.

The first piece was a one hour class exercise using only typography.

The bottom two haikus were selected from a packet of Matsu Basho's we were given and these are a couple of my favorites from the final collection.

[pelikinesis]

葱白く洗ひたてたら寒哉

negishiroku araitatetara samusa kana

  The leeks

Newly washed white,--

  How cold it is!          

                                       - Basho

*Even in summer, the leeks would look cool, but in winter, after having been washed, they look like snowy icicles: This verse is not objective, as if written:

  Washed,

How chill

  The white leeks!

It is not subjective, as if written:

  The white leeks

Washed,

  How cold I am!

Basho feels himself to be a white leek, newly washed, and stood there next to the others. But he does not say anything so absurd as this, nor does he think it.

*Excerpt from Reginald Horace Blyth's "Haiku, Volume 4: Autumn-Winter"

[doya-gao]

Fleeting dreams An octopus making its home in a trap A summer moon

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)