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. - Basho about Basho and his life - .
. Bashooki, Bashoo-ki 芭蕉忌 Basho Memorial Day .
also called
Winter Rain Anniversary (shigure ki 時雨忌, shigure-e 時雨会)
Old Master's Day (Okina no hi 翁の日)
Green Peach Day (Toosei ki 桃青忌）
'Green Peach' was Basho's pen name before he choose the Banana plant, Basho.
Buson wrote
. Basho satte sono nochi imada toshi kurezu .
Since Basho left the world,
Not yet has
"The year drawn to its close."
Tr. Blyth
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- - - - - . bantaroo 番太郎 flood warden, bridge warden in Edo ###. - - - - -
- - - - - bashoo 芭蕉 the banana plant - - - - -
. - Bashō-An, 芭蕉庵 Basho-An in Fukagawa 深川 - .
. - Basho Inari Jinja 芭蕉稲荷神社 Basho Fox Shrine - .
Tokiwa, Koto Ward 江東区常盤1-3 Tokyo
. bashooha o hashira ni kaken io no tsuki .
moon above my humble abode
. bashoo nowaki shite tarai ni ame o kiku yo kana .
- - bashooha o hashira ni kaken io no tsuki
- kigo about the banana plant
ばせを植ゑてまづ憎む荻の二葉哉
baseo uete mazu nikumu ogi no futaba kana
. bashoo uete mazu nikumu ogi no futaba kana .
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- - - - - . betsu zashiki 別座敷 detached room, detached cottage . - - - - -
ぴいと啼く尻声悲し夜の鹿 - bii
. pii to naku shirigoe kanashi yoru no shika .
the sound of a deer, rendered as beee or heee in some translations
- - - - - . biwa 琵琶 lute Biwako 琵琶行 a Chinese poem . - - - - -
. biwakoo no yo ya samisen no oto arare .
(winter) hail. song of the biwa lute. shamisen. sound like hail falling
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. botan shibe fukaku wake-izuru hachi no nagori kana .
(summer) peony. pistils the bee withdraws regretfully
for - Hayashi Tooyoo 桐葉 Hayashi Toyo -
. bushoosa ya kaki-okosareshi haru no ame .
(spring) rain in spring. such laziness. woken up by rain
- - - - - . byoobu 屏風 Byobu, folding screen . - - - - -
. byoobu ni wa yama o egaite fuyu-gomori .
(winter) winter seclusion. folding screen. a painted mountain
. byoogan no yosamu ni ochite tabine kana .
(autumn) sick goose. falling ill on a cold night, sleep on the journey
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