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. Family Ties - his wife, son, brother, parents ### .
. Food and regional dishes savoured by Basho ### .
. fragrance, smell 香 ka, ko, incense .
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. fue no ne ni nami mo yorikitaru Suma no aki .
(autumn) at Suma beach
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- - - - - fuji 藤 wisteria - - - - -
. fuji no mi wa haikai ni sen hana no ato .
(autumn) wisteria seeds. no theme for haikai. after the flowers
. kutabirete yado karu koro ya fuji no hana .
(spring) wisteria flowers. I am so tired. looking for a lodging
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- - - - - . Fujisan, Fuji no Yama 富士山 Mount Fuji ###. - - - - -
. Fuji no kaze ya oogi ni nosete Edo miyage .
(summer) handfan, wind from Mount Fuji, the town of Edo
. Fuji no yuki Rosei ga yume o tsukasetari .
(winter) snow. Mount Fuji. Lu Sheng 廬生 Rosei (713 - 741). dream
. Fuji no yama nomi ga chausu no ooi kana .
(summer) lice. Mount Fuji. tea-grinding mill. to carry
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. Fukagawa 深川 district in Edo .
. Fukagawa 深川 - Bashō-An 芭蕉庵 Basho-An - his "thatched hut" . ###
. . . Fukagawa Happin 深川八貧 "Eight Beggars of Fukagawa"
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. fukitobasu ishi mo Asama no nowaki kana .
(autumn) typhoon, Mount Asamayama. blowing stones
- - - - - fuki-otosu Asama wa ishi no nowaki kana
. fuku kaze no naka o uo tobu misogi kana .
(summer) purifucation ritual. fish jump in the blowing wind
. fumi naranu iroha mo kakite kachuu kana .
(autumn) colored leaves 色葉 iroha. not enough for a letter. into the fire
- and iroha いろは, the Japanese alphabet.
. furazu tomo take uu hi wa mino to kasa .
(summer) planting bamboo. not raining. mino-raincoat and a rain-hat
. furi uri no gan aware nari Ebisu koo / furiuri .
(New Year) Ebisu festival. peddler. geese. pathos
. furuhata ya nazuna tsumiyuku otokodomo .
(spring/New Year) sheperd's purse. old fields. male companions
- - - - - furu-ike - 古池 the OLD POND - - - - -
. furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto . furu ike ya
(spring) the famous : old pond, frog jumps, sound of water
. furu ike no oshidori ni yuki furu yuube kana .
? attributed to Basho
. furuki na no Tsunuga ya koishi aki no tsuki .
(autumn) moon. old name of Tsunuga. full of memories (Tsuruga)
- - - - - . - furusato 故郷、古里 home village, home town, Heimat - * . - - - - -
. furusato ya hezo no o ni naku toshi no kure .
(winter) end of the year. my hometown, navel string
. furu su tada aware naru beki tonari kana .
(spring) old nest. so lonely. my neighbour
. futari mishi yuki wa kotoshi mo furikeru ka .
(winter) snow. seeing it together (with Ochi Etsujin)
. futsuka ni mo nukari haseji na hana no haru .
(spring) cherry blossoms. on the second day I won't fail (at temple Hasedera 長谷寺)
. futsukayoi mono kawa hana no aru aida .
(spring) cherry blossoms. hangover. who cares
. fuugetsu no sai mo hanareyo fukami-gusa .
fūgetsu no zai mo hanareyo fukamigusa
(summer) peony. love of nature "wind and moon" fugetsu. to go beyond
- - - - - . fuuryuu, fûryû 風流 (fengliu) FURYU and fuuga, fûga 風雅 FUGA elegance . - - - - - fuukyoo, fûkyô 風狂 FUKYO, poetic eccentricity
. fuuryuu no hajime ya Oku no taue uta .
(summer) planting rice in the paddies, Oku, furyu-the elegant, acomplished
. fuyugare ya yo wa hito iro ni kaze no oto .
(winter) withered plants in winter. the sound of wind in a world of one color
- - - - - fuyu 冬 winter - - - - -
. fuyu botan chidori yo yuki no hototogisu .
(winter) snow. winter peonies, plover, hototogisu (4 kigo in one poem!)
. - - - - - fuyugomori 冬篭り winter seclusion .
- - - - - sashikomoru さしこもる【鎖し籠もる】used by Basho
. fuyu-gomori mata yorisowan kono hashira .
(winter) seclusion. I lean against this pillar
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冬庭や月もいとなる虫の吟
fuyu niwa ya / tsuki mo ito naru / mushi no gin
fuyuniwa (hokku)
. fuyu no hi ya bajoo ni kooru kagebooshi .
- samuki ta ya bajoo ni sukumu kagebooshi
(winter) cold. shadow, horse
. fuyu shiranu yado ya momi suru oto arare .
(autumn) hulling rice. winter is not known. sound like hail
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19/07/2012
fuyugomori - winter seclusion
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- fuyugomori 冬篭り winter confinement, winter isolation, wintering -
fuyukomori, fuyu komori - hibernation; staying indoors during winter
In rural Japan, especially in the Northern areas along the coast of the Sea of Japan, the winter is long and brings enormous amounts of snow. There was nothing much to do that sit back and wait it out. The farmhouses where difficult to heat and the family huddled around the hearth (irori) in the kitchen. It was a tough time to live through with great endurance.
Animals like bears sleep through the whole cold season, also called fuyugomori.
sashikomoru さしこもる【鎖し籠もる】- To keep the doors and windows shut and stay indoors.
- - - - - tojikomoru 閉じこもる 閉じ籠もる】 - rookyo suru 籠居(ろうきょ)する
It could be done in any season, but in winter the home was kept closed to keep out the cold.
The history of the futon in the Edo period - keeping warm with what you have ...
. WKD : fuyugomori, fuyu-gomori 冬篭り winter seclusion .
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さし籠る葎の友か冬菜売り
さしこもる葎の友かふゆなうり
sashikomoru mugura no tomo kabuna uri
Staying indoors, the only friend
At the house of the bedstraw is
The vendor of winter greens!
Tr. Oseko Toshiharu
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are you a companion
to those creepers secluded away?
winter vegetable sellertrans. Barnhill
Barnhill's comment:
Winter: winter greens. 1688-89. Basho is living in winter seclusion, with no visitors and his hut covered with creepers. Farmers would walk around selling the meager winter vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage. A scene of a someone living secluded in humble circumstances.
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staying indoors
the only friend of bedstraw
a vendor of greens
trans. Reichhold
Reichhold's comment:
1688--winter. Bedstraw, also called goosegrass ('Galium spium'), was used to stuff mattresses for the poor. In winter, Basho has two reliable friends to keep him well, and both were green plants.
Is Reichhold suggesting that Basho's futon is stuffed with bedstraw?
And that Basho is using "bedstraw" as a figure of speech to mean himself?
Ah, if only Basho had used 'fuyugomori' (winter seclusion) instead of 'sashikomoru' (staying indoors), it would make the translation somewhat easier, in my opinion. "Staying indoors" begs the question of who is staying indoors. Barnhill cleverly works around this by saying it's the creepers that are "secluded away." I think we are to take it to mean that Basho is identifying himself with the creepers.
And I would use "peddler" rather than "vendor," since vendors can have stalls, and don't necessarily sell their wares going door-to-door.
. . Discussion by Larry Bole
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From the haiku of Basho we can see him at age 45, buy some greens and prepare his meager meal all by himself. The peddler was the only person he had seen and talked to in quite a while. His home, overgrown with mugura cleaver weeds, had just this one friend who came by once in a while.
Written in 元禄元年, Basho age 45（雪まろげ）yuki maroge collection
WKD - mugura 葎 (むぐら) cleavers .
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Basho used "sashikomoru" again in a three-link sequence he wrote with Kyoriku and Ranran in 1692:
kangiku no tonari mo ari ya ike daikon - (Kyoriku)
Right there! Near
the winter chrysanthemums--
a buried radish.
fuyu sashikomoru hokusoo no susu - (Basho)
Kept in during the winter --
soot on my northern window.
tsuki mo naki yoi kara uma o tsurete kite - (Ranran)
There's no moon--
last night, I came here
driving a horse.
trans. Pei Pei Qiu
In the Cold Parts of Northern Japan where it snows a lto, here is a seasonal custom concerning the window and protecting it from the cold winds of the area by adding strong wooden plates.
. WKD : kitamado fusagu 北窓塞ぐ closing the North window .
kigo for early winter
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まづ祝へ梅を心の冬籠り
先祝へ梅を心の冬籠り
mazu iwae ume o kokoro no fuyu-gomori
Anyway celebrate I will
This winter hibernation
With apricot blossoms in my heart.
Tr. Takafumi Saito
Written in 貞亨4年, Basho age 44 - Nozarashi Kikoo 野ざらし紀行
Matsuo Basho for his disciple Tsuboi Tokoku 坪井杜国, Nagoya.
Tokoku had been put in exile for a crime he did not even commit. So if he would stay in hiding maybe next spring things will turn out better.
. - Tsuboi Tokoku 坪井杜国 - .
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冬籠りまた寄りそはんこの柱
冬籠りまたよりそはん此の柱
fuyugomori mata yorisowan kono hashira
Winter hibernation
Against this pillar
I'll snuggle once again.
Tr. Saito / Nelson
locked in for the winter -
again I'll be nestling close
to this post
Tr. Ueda
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Winter seclusion -
once again I snuggle up
against this pillar
This haiku is thought to be derived from a poem by Po Chu I :
In my leisurely life
again I lean against this post
- Tr. and comment by Bill Wyatt
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金屏の松の古さよ冬籠り
. kinbyoo no matsu no furusa yo fuyugomori .
a golden folding screen with an old pine
屏風には山を画書いて冬籠り
屏風には山を絵書て冬籠
. byoobu ni wa yama o egaite fuyu-gomori .
a mountain painted on a folding screen
and more hokku by Basho about golden folding screens.
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難波津や田螺の蓋も冬ごもり
. Naniwazu ya tanishi no futa mo fuyugomori .
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折々に伊吹を見ては冬籠り
ori ori ni / Ibuki o mite wa / fuyu-gomori
Written in 元禄4年, Basho age 48.
At the home of Miyazaki Keikoo 宮崎荊口 and his second son, Sensen 千川 in Ogaki.
Mount Ibukiyama can be seen from there.
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fuyugare 冬枯れ withering of plants in winter
冬枯れや 世は一色に 風の音
fuyugare ya yo wa isshoku ni kaze no oto
Winter solitude —
In a world of one color
the sound of wind.
Basho, Tr. Robert Hass
- - - - Part of a comment by Robert Hass:
There may be a tension between “color” and “wind.” The “world” is one color. It isn’t cold, it isn’t necessarily earth or nature frosted over. It is simply one color. This seems to imply there is one unchangeable object. That object may be perceiver and perceived. The wind moves. It produces sound. We know that sound is not a steady drone.
Change resides in what seemed static being. There may be a physiological explanation for “winter solitude.” The sun doesn’t shine as much, certain chemicals don’t get produced, we feel down. Any such explanation does injustice to “solitude.” Your loneliness is not another’s: we’re all different. We’re lonely inasmuch we are individuals. That solitude, like winter itself, has seeds of change within. The sound of wind betokens a world with many colors and the communication of the poem itself.
source : www.ashokkarra.com
The Japanese is not "winter solitude" but "withering in winter" of plants.
. fuyugare 冬枯れ winter withering .
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. WKD : fuyugomori 冬篭り winter seclusion .
. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .
. - KIGO used by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - .
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- fuyugomori 冬篭り winter confinement, winter isolation, wintering -
fuyukomori, fuyu komori - hibernation; staying indoors during winter
In rural Japan, especially in the Northern areas along the coast of the Sea of Japan, the winter is long and brings enormous amounts of snow. There was nothing much to do that sit back and wait it out. The farmhouses where difficult to heat and the family huddled around the hearth (irori) in the kitchen. It was a tough time to live through with great endurance.
Animals like bears sleep through the whole cold season, also called fuyugomori.
sashikomoru さしこもる【鎖し籠もる】- To keep the doors and windows shut and stay indoors.
- - - - - tojikomoru 閉じこもる 閉じ籠もる】 - rookyo suru 籠居(ろうきょ)する
It could be done in any season, but in winter the home was kept closed to keep out the cold.
The history of the futon in the Edo period - keeping warm with what you have ...
. WKD : fuyugomori, fuyu-gomori 冬篭り winter seclusion .
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さし籠る葎の友か冬菜売り
さしこもる葎の友かふゆなうり
sashikomoru mugura no tomo kabuna uri
Staying indoors, the only friend
At the house of the bedstraw is
The vendor of winter greens!
Tr. Oseko Toshiharu
- - - - -
are you a companion
to those creepers secluded away?
winter vegetable sellertrans. Barnhill
Barnhill's comment:
Winter: winter greens. 1688-89. Basho is living in winter seclusion, with no visitors and his hut covered with creepers. Farmers would walk around selling the meager winter vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage. A scene of a someone living secluded in humble circumstances.
- - - - -
staying indoors
the only friend of bedstraw
a vendor of greens
trans. Reichhold
Reichhold's comment:
1688--winter. Bedstraw, also called goosegrass ('Galium spium'), was used to stuff mattresses for the poor. In winter, Basho has two reliable friends to keep him well, and both were green plants.
Is Reichhold suggesting that Basho's futon is stuffed with bedstraw?
And that Basho is using "bedstraw" as a figure of speech to mean himself?
Ah, if only Basho had used 'fuyugomori' (winter seclusion) instead of 'sashikomoru' (staying indoors), it would make the translation somewhat easier, in my opinion. "Staying indoors" begs the question of who is staying indoors. Barnhill cleverly works around this by saying it's the creepers that are "secluded away." I think we are to take it to mean that Basho is identifying himself with the creepers.
And I would use "peddler" rather than "vendor," since vendors can have stalls, and don't necessarily sell their wares going door-to-door.
. . Discussion by Larry Bole
. . . . .
From the haiku of Basho we can see him at age 45, buy some greens and prepare his meager meal all by himself. The peddler was the only person he had seen and talked to in quite a while. His home, overgrown with mugura cleaver weeds, had just this one friend who came by once in a while.
Written in 元禄元年, Basho age 45（雪まろげ）yuki maroge collection
WKD - mugura 葎 (むぐら) cleavers .
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Basho used "sashikomoru" again in a three-link sequence he wrote with Kyoriku and Ranran in 1692:
kangiku no tonari mo ari ya ike daikon - (Kyoriku)
Right there! Near
the winter chrysanthemums--
a buried radish.
fuyu sashikomoru hokusoo no susu - (Basho)
Kept in during the winter --
soot on my northern window.
tsuki mo naki yoi kara uma o tsurete kite - (Ranran)
There's no moon--
last night, I came here
driving a horse.
trans. Pei Pei Qiu
In the Cold Parts of Northern Japan where it snows a lto, here is a seasonal custom concerning the window and protecting it from the cold winds of the area by adding strong wooden plates.
. WKD : kitamado fusagu 北窓塞ぐ closing the North window .
kigo for early winter
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まづ祝へ梅を心の冬籠り
先祝へ梅を心の冬籠り
mazu iwae ume o kokoro no fuyu-gomori
Anyway celebrate I will
This winter hibernation
With apricot blossoms in my heart.
Tr. Takafumi Saito
Written in 貞亨4年, Basho age 44 - Nozarashi Kikoo 野ざらし紀行
Matsuo Basho for his disciple Tsuboi Tokoku 坪井杜国, Nagoya.
Tokoku had been put in exile for a crime he did not even commit. So if he would stay in hiding maybe next spring things will turn out better.
. - Tsuboi Tokoku 坪井杜国 - .
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冬籠りまた寄りそはんこの柱
冬籠りまたよりそはん此の柱
fuyugomori mata yorisowan kono hashira
Winter hibernation
Against this pillar
I'll snuggle once again.
Tr. Saito / Nelson
locked in for the winter -
again I'll be nestling close
to this post
Tr. Ueda
- - - - -
Winter seclusion -
once again I snuggle up
against this pillar
This haiku is thought to be derived from a poem by Po Chu I :
In my leisurely life
again I lean against this post
- Tr. and comment by Bill Wyatt
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金屏の松の古さよ冬籠り
. kinbyoo no matsu no furusa yo fuyugomori .
a golden folding screen with an old pine
屏風には山を画書いて冬籠り
屏風には山を絵書て冬籠
. byoobu ni wa yama o egaite fuyu-gomori .
a mountain painted on a folding screen
and more hokku by Basho about golden folding screens.
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難波津や田螺の蓋も冬ごもり
. Naniwazu ya tanishi no futa mo fuyugomori .
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折々に伊吹を見ては冬籠り
ori ori ni / Ibuki o mite wa / fuyu-gomori
Written in 元禄4年, Basho age 48.
At the home of Miyazaki Keikoo 宮崎荊口 and his second son, Sensen 千川 in Ogaki.
Mount Ibukiyama can be seen from there.
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fuyugare 冬枯れ withering of plants in winter
冬枯れや 世は一色に 風の音
fuyugare ya yo wa isshoku ni kaze no oto
Winter solitude —
In a world of one color
the sound of wind.
Basho, Tr. Robert Hass
- - - - Part of a comment by Robert Hass:
There may be a tension between “color” and “wind.” The “world” is one color. It isn’t cold, it isn’t necessarily earth or nature frosted over. It is simply one color. This seems to imply there is one unchangeable object. That object may be perceiver and perceived. The wind moves. It produces sound. We know that sound is not a steady drone.
Change resides in what seemed static being. There may be a physiological explanation for “winter solitude.” The sun doesn’t shine as much, certain chemicals don’t get produced, we feel down. Any such explanation does injustice to “solitude.” Your loneliness is not another’s: we’re all different. We’re lonely inasmuch we are individuals. That solitude, like winter itself, has seeds of change within. The sound of wind betokens a world with many colors and the communication of the poem itself.
source : www.ashokkarra.com
The Japanese is not "winter solitude" but "withering in winter" of plants.
. fuyugare 冬枯れ winter withering .
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. WKD : fuyugomori 冬篭り winter seclusion .
. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .
. - KIGO used by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - .
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17/07/2012
Hatsumono first things
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- First Things, New Things 初物 hatsumono -
"First things" were important to the haikai poets of the Edo period, since they carried a lot of "wabi and sabi" with their limited appearance only once in a year.
Many "First things" belong to the season of the first lunar month, now mostly the New Year.
But
There are many other New and First activities and things throughout the year.
First things often start with HATSU ...
or end in .... SOME / ZOME.
There is also .... HAJIME for the first time
. WKD : First Things, New Things .
The first katsuo skipjack of the season was one of the most expensive delicacies in Edo.
Even Basho wrote a hokku about it.
目に青葉 山ほととぎす初かつお
me ni aoba yama hototogisu hatsu katsuo
green leaves to look at
hototogisu in the mountains
first Katsuo skipjack
Yamaguchi Sodoo 山口素堂 Sodo
(1642 - 1716)
He was a disciple of Basho
under construction
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- - - - - hatsu 初 - - - - -
千鳥立ち更け行く初夜の日枝颪
. chidori tachi fuke-yuku shoya no hieoroshi .
shoya (soya) 初夜 , lit. "first night", refers to the "double-hour of the dog" 戌の刻, now about 9 in the evening.
It can also mean the "first night" of a newly-wedded couple.
初秋や畳みながらの蚊屋の夜着
. hatsu aki ya tataminagara no kaya no yogi .
first sign of autumn.
Basho uses his folded mosquito net as a blanket.
初秋や海も青田の一みどり
. hatsu aki ya umi mo aota mo hito midori .
(autumn) autumn begins. the sea and the fields one shade of green
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- - - - - There is a proverb
hatusmono nanajuu gonichi 初物75日 / "初物七十五日"
"If you eat a "first thing",
your life will be prolonged for 75 days.
初花に命七十五年ほど
hatsu hana ni inochi nanajuu gonen hodo
hatsu hana ni / inochi shichi jū / go nen hodo
from these first blossoms
I will gain at least
seventy-five years
Written in 延宝6年, Basho age 35
Basho must be looking at some really beautiful cherry blossoms.
Or maybe he is joking about the relationship with the young ladies ?
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初真桑四つにや断たん輪に切らん
. hatsu makuwa yotsu ni ya tatan wa ni kiran .
hatsu makuwa yotsu no ya kiran wa ni kiran
(summer) first Makuwa melon. cut it in quarters? or round slices?
初時雨猿も小蓑を欲しげなり
. hatsu shigure saru mo komino o hoshige nari .
(winter) winter drizzle, monkey, straw coat. - first from Sarumino 猿蓑
初時雨初の字を我が時雨哉
. hatsu shigure hatsu no ji o waga shigure kana .
(winter) first winter drizzle. the character "first".
初霜や菊冷え初むる腰の綿
. hatsu shimo ya kiku hie somuru koshi no wata .
(autumn) chrysanthemums. first frost. cotton wrapper around my hip
初茸やまだ日数経ぬ秋の露
. hatsutake ya mada hikazu henu aki no tsuyu .
(autumn) first mushrooms. few days have passed. dew in autumn
初午に狐の剃りし頭哉
. hatsu-uma ni kitsune no sorishi atama kana .
(New Year) First Day of the Horse. a fox shaved your head
for Zekitsu 是橘
- - - - - - - - - - hatsu yuki, hatsuyuki 初雪 first snow - - - - -
初雪に兎の皮の髭作れ
. hatsu yuki ni usagi no kawa no hige tsukure .
(winter) first snow. rabbit, fur. beard
初雪や聖小僧の笈の色
. hatsuyuki ya hijiri kozoo no oi no iro .
(winter) first snow. mendicant monk. color of his backpack
初雪やいつ大仏の柱立て
. hatsu yuki ya itsu Daibutsu no hashira date .
(winter) first snow. Daibutsu temple, Nara. erect new columns
初雪や懸けかかりたる橋の上
. hatsu yuki ya kakekakaritaru hashi no ue .
(winter) first snow. on the bridge under construction - The Great Bridge of Fukagawa 深川大橋
初雪や幸ひ庵にまかりある
. hatsu yuki ya saiwai an ni makariaru .
(winter) first snow. luckily. I am in my own hut.
初雪や水仙の葉のたわむまで
. hatsuyuki ya suisen no ha no tawamu made .
(winter) first snow. enough to bend the daffodils
初桜折しも今日はよき日なり
. hatsuzakura orishi mo kyoo wa yoki hi nari .
(spring) first cherry blossom. today is a good day
at Iga Ueno 伊賀上野, temple Yakushi-Ji
蓬莱に聞かばや伊勢の初便り
. hoorai ni kikabaya Ise no hatsudayori .
hōrai ni / kikabaya Ise no / hatsu dayori
(New Year) Horai decoration and first news. I would like to hear.
鎌倉を生きて出でけん初鰹
. Kamakura o ikite ideken hatsugatsuo .
(summer) first katsuo skipjack bonito. town of Kamakura. to be alive
顔に似ぬ発句も出でよ初桜
. kao ni ninu hokku mo ideyo hatsu zakura .
(spring) first cherry blossoms, my face, Hokku
この梅に牛も初音と鳴きつべし
. kono ume ni ushi mo hatsune to nakitsu beshi .
(spring) plum blossoms. an oxen might shout his first moo
今日ばかり人も年寄れ初時雨
. kyoo bakari hito mo toshiyore hatsushigure .
(winter) first winter drizzle. just today. growing older.
めづらしや山を出羽の初茄子
. mezurashi ya yama o Dewa no hatsu nasubi .
(summer) Minden eggplants from Dewa, How special!
咲き乱す桃の中より初桜
. saki midasu momo no naka yori hatsu-zakura / hatsuzakura .
(spring) first cherry blossoms. peach blossoms everywhere.
芹焼きや裾輪の田井の初氷
. seriyaki ya susowa no ta-i no hatsu goori . seri yaki ya
(winter) first ice. dropwort (Japanese parsley). irrigation pond
初春まづ酒に梅売る匂ひかな
. shoshun mazu sake ni ume uru nioi kana .
New Year, sake and plum blossoms
旅人と我が名呼ばれん初時雨
. . . . . tabibito to waga na yobaren hatsu shigure .
(winter) first winter drizzle. traveller. my name.
柳行李片荷は涼し初真桑
. yanagigoori katani wa suzushi hatsu makuwa .
(summer) first melon. wicker box luggage. coolness
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- - - - - hajime 初め, はじめ - - - - -
風流の初めや奥の田植歌
. fuuryuu no hajime ya Oku no taue uta .
(summer) planting rice in the paddies, Oku, furyu-the elegant, acomplished
花を宿に始め終りや二十日ほど
. hana no yado ni hajime owari ya hatsuka hodo .
(spring) cherry blossoms. from beginning to end about 20 days
十六夜はわづかに闇の初め哉
. izayoi wa wazuka ni yami no hajime kana .
(autumn) sixteenth night moon. beginning of darkness
大津絵の筆のはじめは何仏
. Ootsu e no fude no hajime wa nani botoke .
(New Year) first use of the brush. Otsu-e paintings. Buddha image
暫時は滝に籠るや夏の初め
. shibaraku wa taki ni komoru ya ge no hajime .
(summer) waterfall. summer retreat. for some time
七夕や秋を定むる夜のはじめ
. Tanabata ya aki o sadamuru yo no hajime .
(autumn) Tanabata star festival. now autumn has really come
at the home of Yadoo 野童 Yado in Kyoto
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新藁の出初めて早き時雨哉
. shinwara no desomete hayaki shigure kana .
new straw is already coming out
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This hokku includes the character of HATSU 初,
but in the old spelling of Hase長谷, Hatsuse 初瀬, a place and temple near Nara.
うかれける人や初瀬の山桜
. ukarekeru hito ya Hatsuse no yamazakura .
ukare-keru hito ya Hatsuse no yama-zakura
(spring) mountain cherry blossoms. people wander around at Hase temple
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. WKD : First Things, New Things .
. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .
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- First Things, New Things 初物 hatsumono -
"First things" were important to the haikai poets of the Edo period, since they carried a lot of "wabi and sabi" with their limited appearance only once in a year.
Many "First things" belong to the season of the first lunar month, now mostly the New Year.
But
There are many other New and First activities and things throughout the year.
First things often start with HATSU ...
or end in .... SOME / ZOME.
There is also .... HAJIME for the first time
. WKD : First Things, New Things .
The first katsuo skipjack of the season was one of the most expensive delicacies in Edo.
Even Basho wrote a hokku about it.
目に青葉 山ほととぎす初かつお
me ni aoba yama hototogisu hatsu katsuo
green leaves to look at
hototogisu in the mountains
first Katsuo skipjack
Yamaguchi Sodoo 山口素堂 Sodo
(1642 - 1716)
He was a disciple of Basho
under construction
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- - - - - hatsu 初 - - - - -
千鳥立ち更け行く初夜の日枝颪
. chidori tachi fuke-yuku shoya no hieoroshi .
shoya (soya) 初夜 , lit. "first night", refers to the "double-hour of the dog" 戌の刻, now about 9 in the evening.
It can also mean the "first night" of a newly-wedded couple.
初秋や畳みながらの蚊屋の夜着
. hatsu aki ya tataminagara no kaya no yogi .
first sign of autumn.
Basho uses his folded mosquito net as a blanket.
初秋や海も青田の一みどり
. hatsu aki ya umi mo aota mo hito midori .
(autumn) autumn begins. the sea and the fields one shade of green
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- - - - - There is a proverb
hatusmono nanajuu gonichi 初物75日 / "初物七十五日"
"If you eat a "first thing",
your life will be prolonged for 75 days.
初花に命七十五年ほど
hatsu hana ni inochi nanajuu gonen hodo
hatsu hana ni / inochi shichi jū / go nen hodo
from these first blossoms
I will gain at least
seventy-five years
Written in 延宝6年, Basho age 35
Basho must be looking at some really beautiful cherry blossoms.
Or maybe he is joking about the relationship with the young ladies ?
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初真桑四つにや断たん輪に切らん
. hatsu makuwa yotsu ni ya tatan wa ni kiran .
hatsu makuwa yotsu no ya kiran wa ni kiran
(summer) first Makuwa melon. cut it in quarters? or round slices?
初時雨猿も小蓑を欲しげなり
. hatsu shigure saru mo komino o hoshige nari .
(winter) winter drizzle, monkey, straw coat. - first from Sarumino 猿蓑
初時雨初の字を我が時雨哉
. hatsu shigure hatsu no ji o waga shigure kana .
(winter) first winter drizzle. the character "first".
初霜や菊冷え初むる腰の綿
. hatsu shimo ya kiku hie somuru koshi no wata .
(autumn) chrysanthemums. first frost. cotton wrapper around my hip
初茸やまだ日数経ぬ秋の露
. hatsutake ya mada hikazu henu aki no tsuyu .
(autumn) first mushrooms. few days have passed. dew in autumn
初午に狐の剃りし頭哉
. hatsu-uma ni kitsune no sorishi atama kana .
(New Year) First Day of the Horse. a fox shaved your head
for Zekitsu 是橘
- - - - - - - - - - hatsu yuki, hatsuyuki 初雪 first snow - - - - -
初雪に兎の皮の髭作れ
. hatsu yuki ni usagi no kawa no hige tsukure .
(winter) first snow. rabbit, fur. beard
初雪や聖小僧の笈の色
. hatsuyuki ya hijiri kozoo no oi no iro .
(winter) first snow. mendicant monk. color of his backpack
初雪やいつ大仏の柱立て
. hatsu yuki ya itsu Daibutsu no hashira date .
(winter) first snow. Daibutsu temple, Nara. erect new columns
初雪や懸けかかりたる橋の上
. hatsu yuki ya kakekakaritaru hashi no ue .
(winter) first snow. on the bridge under construction - The Great Bridge of Fukagawa 深川大橋
初雪や幸ひ庵にまかりある
. hatsu yuki ya saiwai an ni makariaru .
(winter) first snow. luckily. I am in my own hut.
初雪や水仙の葉のたわむまで
. hatsuyuki ya suisen no ha no tawamu made .
(winter) first snow. enough to bend the daffodils
初桜折しも今日はよき日なり
. hatsuzakura orishi mo kyoo wa yoki hi nari .
(spring) first cherry blossom. today is a good day
at Iga Ueno 伊賀上野, temple Yakushi-Ji
蓬莱に聞かばや伊勢の初便り
. hoorai ni kikabaya Ise no hatsudayori .
hōrai ni / kikabaya Ise no / hatsu dayori
(New Year) Horai decoration and first news. I would like to hear.
鎌倉を生きて出でけん初鰹
. Kamakura o ikite ideken hatsugatsuo .
(summer) first katsuo skipjack bonito. town of Kamakura. to be alive
顔に似ぬ発句も出でよ初桜
. kao ni ninu hokku mo ideyo hatsu zakura .
(spring) first cherry blossoms, my face, Hokku
この梅に牛も初音と鳴きつべし
. kono ume ni ushi mo hatsune to nakitsu beshi .
(spring) plum blossoms. an oxen might shout his first moo
今日ばかり人も年寄れ初時雨
. kyoo bakari hito mo toshiyore hatsushigure .
(winter) first winter drizzle. just today. growing older.
めづらしや山を出羽の初茄子
. mezurashi ya yama o Dewa no hatsu nasubi .
(summer) Minden eggplants from Dewa, How special!
咲き乱す桃の中より初桜
. saki midasu momo no naka yori hatsu-zakura / hatsuzakura .
(spring) first cherry blossoms. peach blossoms everywhere.
芹焼きや裾輪の田井の初氷
. seriyaki ya susowa no ta-i no hatsu goori . seri yaki ya
(winter) first ice. dropwort (Japanese parsley). irrigation pond
初春まづ酒に梅売る匂ひかな
. shoshun mazu sake ni ume uru nioi kana .
New Year, sake and plum blossoms
旅人と我が名呼ばれん初時雨
. . . . . tabibito to waga na yobaren hatsu shigure .
(winter) first winter drizzle. traveller. my name.
柳行李片荷は涼し初真桑
. yanagigoori katani wa suzushi hatsu makuwa .
(summer) first melon. wicker box luggage. coolness
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- - - - - hajime 初め, はじめ - - - - -
風流の初めや奥の田植歌
. fuuryuu no hajime ya Oku no taue uta .
(summer) planting rice in the paddies, Oku, furyu-the elegant, acomplished
花を宿に始め終りや二十日ほど
. hana no yado ni hajime owari ya hatsuka hodo .
(spring) cherry blossoms. from beginning to end about 20 days
十六夜はわづかに闇の初め哉
. izayoi wa wazuka ni yami no hajime kana .
(autumn) sixteenth night moon. beginning of darkness
大津絵の筆のはじめは何仏
. Ootsu e no fude no hajime wa nani botoke .
(New Year) first use of the brush. Otsu-e paintings. Buddha image
暫時は滝に籠るや夏の初め
. shibaraku wa taki ni komoru ya ge no hajime .
(summer) waterfall. summer retreat. for some time
七夕や秋を定むる夜のはじめ
. Tanabata ya aki o sadamuru yo no hajime .
(autumn) Tanabata star festival. now autumn has really come
at the home of Yadoo 野童 Yado in Kyoto
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- - - - - some そめ - - - - -
新藁の出初めて早き時雨哉
. shinwara no desomete hayaki shigure kana .
new straw is already coming out
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This hokku includes the character of HATSU 初,
but in the old spelling of Hase長谷, Hatsuse 初瀬, a place and temple near Nara.
うかれける人や初瀬の山桜
. ukarekeru hito ya Hatsuse no yamazakura .
ukare-keru hito ya Hatsuse no yama-zakura
(spring) mountain cherry blossoms. people wander around at Hase temple
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furusato and Basho
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- furusato ふるさと 故郷、古里 home village, home town, Heimat -
The mention of the word FURUSATO in Japan will bring a lot of emotions to the heart, it is very very dear to the Japanese!
The German HEIMAT seems a bit similar in emotional potential.
There are many clichees with the Japanese "hometown" feeling, for example the red dragonfly, the graves of the ancestors, the Autumn festival at the local shrine and the food flavor of home (furusato no aji), expecially the miso soup made by mother (o-fukuro no aji).
hometown, home village, my native place, furusato
..... ふるさと 故郷、古里 故里 郷土 郷里
"my old village", "my home village", "my native village"
place where I was born, umare kokyoo 生まれ故郷
home country, kyookoku 郷国、郷関
The Japanese word KOKYOO sounds rather stiff, whereas FURUSATO is pleasing to the ear. Therefore FURUSATO is used mostly in haiku. Ever since Basho used it in his famous haiku, it has been used again and again. Some haiku may sound sentimental just because the use of this word. Yet, since we all can resonate with the feeling of belonging there, most haiku are well liked.
. WKD - furusato 故郷、古里 home town, Heimat.
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旧里や臍の緒に泣くとしの暮
ふるさとや ほぞのおになく としのくれ
furusato ya hozo no o ni naku toshi no kure
town where I was born -
as I weep over my umbilical cord
the year comes to a close
Tr. Ueda
Written in 1687 貞享4年, Oi no Kobumi
This hokku has the cut marker YA at the end of line 1.
Japanese mothers keep the umbilical cord as a memento of the birth of their babies.
heso no o, hozo no o 臍の緒 umbilical cord
When Basho has the chance to hold it in his hands again in Iga Ueno, he is overwhelmed with the memories of his late mother and father.
Photo: ©（牛久市森田武さん撮影）
Haiku Stone Monument in Iga Ueno
http://www.ese.yamanashi.ac.jp/~itoyo/basho/oinokobumi/oino13.htm#ku3
my home town -
I weep over my navel string
at the end of the year
Tr. Gabi Greve
umbilical cord box へその緒寿箱
The box is called Kotobuki-bako 寿箱 "Long Life Box", and sold at many shrines in Japan. There are many variations, with a small baby doll clad in kimono above the navel string.
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一里はみな花守の子孫かや
. hitozato wa mina hanamori no shison kana .
hito sato wa mina hanamori no shison ka ya
In this village everyone is a descendant from Cherry Blossom Wardens.
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鐘撞かぬ里は何をか春の暮
. kane tsukanu sato wa nani o ka haru no kure .
temple bell in the village
(in another version, 'sato' is replaced by 'mura'.)
a village where no
bells ring: what, then,
of spring evenings?
Tr. Barnhill
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刈りかけし田面の鶴や里の秋
. karikakeshi tazura no tsuru ya sato no aki .
autumn in the village
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里人は稻に歌詠む都かな
. (satobito) sato-bito wa ine ni uta yomu miyako kana .
the local people from the village
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里古りて柿の木持たぬ家もなし
sato furite kaki no ki motanu ie mo nashi
this old village -
no house without
persimmon trees
Dried kaki fruit was sometimes the only food the poor farmers in the Edo period could eat in winter, since they had to give away all their rice to the authorities for tax purposes. Therefore the kaki trees around each farm house were pure necessity to feed the hungry children.
Written on day 7 of the 8th lunar month in 1694, 元禄7年8月7日 Basho age 51.
Basho stayed at the home of 望翠 Bosui in Iga Ueno.
Some say he was the husband of his sister.
. Katano Boosui 片野望翠 Katano Bosui / 井筒屋新蔵 .
. WKD : kaki 柿 persimmon fruit .
In an old hamlet,
There is not a single house without
A persimmon tree.
Tr. Oseko
source : kikyou0123
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里の子よ梅折り残せ牛の鞭
. sato no ko yo ume orinokose ushi no muchi .
village kids, children of the village
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山里は万歳遅し梅の花
. yamazato wa manzai ososhi ume no hana .
a mountain village and the New Year's dancers
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With links to many Furusato-Basho towns and events:
source : bashomichi.com/
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. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .
. - KIGO used by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - .
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- furusato ふるさと 故郷、古里 home village, home town, Heimat -
The mention of the word FURUSATO in Japan will bring a lot of emotions to the heart, it is very very dear to the Japanese!
The German HEIMAT seems a bit similar in emotional potential.
There are many clichees with the Japanese "hometown" feeling, for example the red dragonfly, the graves of the ancestors, the Autumn festival at the local shrine and the food flavor of home (furusato no aji), expecially the miso soup made by mother (o-fukuro no aji).
hometown, home village, my native place, furusato
..... ふるさと 故郷、古里 故里 郷土 郷里
"my old village", "my home village", "my native village"
place where I was born, umare kokyoo 生まれ故郷
home country, kyookoku 郷国、郷関
The Japanese word KOKYOO sounds rather stiff, whereas FURUSATO is pleasing to the ear. Therefore FURUSATO is used mostly in haiku. Ever since Basho used it in his famous haiku, it has been used again and again. Some haiku may sound sentimental just because the use of this word. Yet, since we all can resonate with the feeling of belonging there, most haiku are well liked.
. WKD - furusato 故郷、古里 home town, Heimat.
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旧里や臍の緒に泣くとしの暮
ふるさとや ほぞのおになく としのくれ
furusato ya hozo no o ni naku toshi no kure
town where I was born -
as I weep over my umbilical cord
the year comes to a close
Tr. Ueda
Written in 1687 貞享4年, Oi no Kobumi
This hokku has the cut marker YA at the end of line 1.
Japanese mothers keep the umbilical cord as a memento of the birth of their babies.
heso no o, hozo no o 臍の緒 umbilical cord
When Basho has the chance to hold it in his hands again in Iga Ueno, he is overwhelmed with the memories of his late mother and father.
Photo: ©（牛久市森田武さん撮影）
Haiku Stone Monument in Iga Ueno
http://www.ese.yamanashi.ac.jp/~itoyo/basho/oinokobumi/oino13.htm#ku3
my home town -
I weep over my navel string
at the end of the year
Tr. Gabi Greve
umbilical cord box へその緒寿箱
The box is called Kotobuki-bako 寿箱 "Long Life Box", and sold at many shrines in Japan. There are many variations, with a small baby doll clad in kimono above the navel string.
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一里はみな花守の子孫かや
. hitozato wa mina hanamori no shison kana .
hito sato wa mina hanamori no shison ka ya
In this village everyone is a descendant from Cherry Blossom Wardens.
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鐘撞かぬ里は何をか春の暮
. kane tsukanu sato wa nani o ka haru no kure .
temple bell in the village
(in another version, 'sato' is replaced by 'mura'.)
a village where no
bells ring: what, then,
of spring evenings?
Tr. Barnhill
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刈りかけし田面の鶴や里の秋
. karikakeshi tazura no tsuru ya sato no aki .
autumn in the village
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里人は稻に歌詠む都かな
. (satobito) sato-bito wa ine ni uta yomu miyako kana .
the local people from the village
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里古りて柿の木持たぬ家もなし
sato furite kaki no ki motanu ie mo nashi
this old village -
no house without
persimmon trees
Dried kaki fruit was sometimes the only food the poor farmers in the Edo period could eat in winter, since they had to give away all their rice to the authorities for tax purposes. Therefore the kaki trees around each farm house were pure necessity to feed the hungry children.
Written on day 7 of the 8th lunar month in 1694, 元禄7年8月7日 Basho age 51.
Basho stayed at the home of 望翠 Bosui in Iga Ueno.
Some say he was the husband of his sister.
. Katano Boosui 片野望翠 Katano Bosui / 井筒屋新蔵 .
. WKD : kaki 柿 persimmon fruit .
In an old hamlet,
There is not a single house without
A persimmon tree.
Tr. Oseko
source : kikyou0123
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里の子よ梅折り残せ牛の鞭
. sato no ko yo ume orinokose ushi no muchi .
village kids, children of the village
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山里は万歳遅し梅の花
. yamazato wa manzai ososhi ume no hana .
a mountain village and the New Year's dancers
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With links to many Furusato-Basho towns and events:
source : bashomichi.com/
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. WKD - furusato 故郷、古里 home town, Heimat.
. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .
. - KIGO used by Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - .
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Fuji, Mount Fujisan
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- Fuji 富士山 Mount Fujisan -
In the Edo of the times of Basho, Mount Fuji could be seen from many places.
First view of Mount Fuji, hatsu Fuji 初富士
is an important kigo for the New Year.
. WKD : Mount Fuji 富士山, Fuji-san, or Fujiyama, .
Basho wrote quite a few hokku about this famous mountain, Fuji no Yama.
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April 2013
Mount Fuji on verge of World Heritage listing
An important UNESCO panel has recommended that World Heritage status be granted to Mount Fuji, putting the iconic peak on a direct path to registration.
Japan’s tallest mountain is expected to be formally listed in June when the World Heritage Committee meets in Cambodia.
IMOCOS noted that the mountain is a national symbol of Japan and blends religious and artistic traditions, government officials said.
source : Japan Times, April 2013
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On Mount Fuji
Mount Kunlun is said to be far away, and in Mount Penglai and Mount Fangzhang dwell Daoist immortals. But right here before my eyes: Mount Fuji's great peak rises from the earth. It seems to hold up the blue heavens and open the cloud gate for the sun and moon.
From wherever I gaze, there is a consummate vista as the beautiful scenery goes through a thousand changes. Even poets can't exhaust this scene in verse; those with great talent and men of letters give up their words; painters too abandon their bushes and flee.
If the demigods of faraway Gushe Mountain were to appear, I wonder if even they could succeed in putting this scene into a poem or a painting.
雲霧の暫時百景を尽しけり
kumo kiri no zanji hyakkei o tsukushi keri
with clouds and mist
in a brief moment a hundred scenes
brought to fulfillment
Tr. Barnhill
This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment - Roger S. Gottlieb
source : books.google.co.jp
Written in 1684 貞亨元年
. 野ざらし紀行 Nozarashi Kiko .
. Chinese background of Japanese haiku .
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富士の風や扇にのせて江戸土産
. Fuji no kaze ya oogi ni nosete Edo miyage .
wind from Mount Fuji
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cha-usu 茶臼 tea grinding mortar
富士の山蚤が茶臼の覆かな
Fuji no yama nomi ga chausu no ooi kana / cha-usu
Mount Fuji
like the tea-grinding mill
carried by the lice . . .
Basho age 33
To compare Mount Fuji to a cha-usu, a mill for grinding tea leaves, has been done since olden times.
This is complete fiction to show the greatness of Mount Fuji.
There was a popular song in Edo to which Basho is referring
蚤が茶臼を背たら負うて、背たら負うて、
富士のお山をちょいと越えた
The lice are carrying a tea-grinding mill
carrying it on their back
just trying to climb over Mount Fuji.
It was also a popular game to cover a tea-grinding mill with strong washi paper to make it look like Mount Fuji.
source : turbo717
Mount Fuji seen from the mountain hut called
Chausu 茶臼小屋は富士山
at the foot of Mount Chausu 茶臼岳
. WKD : Cha Tea Tee Chai - cha-usu.
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富士の雪廬生が夢を築かせたり
. Fuji no yuki Rosei ga yume o tsukasetari .
snow on Mount Fuji
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一尾根はしぐるる雲か富士の雪
hito one wa shigururu kumo ka Fuji no yuki
over one ridge
do I see winter rain clouds?
snow for Mt. Fuji
The above haiku is a beautiful 'winter landscape painting' on a large scale, in which you are viewing Mt. Fuji in relation to its surrounding mountain families. In the centre, you see Mt. Fuji covered with snow in all its glories. And you also see other mountain-families where probably snow does not reach, as they are not high enough. Your eyes travel from right to left and from left to right, surveying many different things happening. Over one ridge (o-ne) are winter clouds unloading their cargo. However, of all the mountains how tall, superb and magnificent the snow-covered Mt. Fuji is!
This haiku is famous for depicting the superiority of Mt. Fuji in relation to other mountain families.
Basho was 44 years old when he wrote this haiku in the year of 4 Jokyo (1687). He had left Edo on 25 October for the trip to his hometown. This haiku is recorded in Hakusen-Shu.
. Etsuko Yanagibori.
is one ridge
clouded with winter showers?
Fuji in snow
Tr. Barnhill
Written in the 11th lunar month of 1687, 貞亨4年11月
Maybe at the tea house Yuzu no Ki Chaya 柚木の茶屋.
In the year 1817 a stone monument was erected by a samurai 野楊 from the Kameyama domain in Tanba 丹波亀山藩士野楊.
. Oi no Kobumi 笈の小文 .
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雲を根に富士は杉形の茂りかな
. kumo o ne ni Fuji wa suginari no shigeri kana .
green foilage of Mount Fuji
目にかかる時やことさら五月富士
. me ni kakaru toki ya kotosara satsuki Fuji .
Mount Fuji in the month of satsuki (May)
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霧時雨富士を見ぬ日ぞ面白き
. kiri shigure Fuji o minu hi zo omoshiroki .
Fuji in fog and cold drizzle
Shrouded in the dense fog of late autumn rains--
Fuji is unseen for the day.
Intriguing!
Tr. only1tanuki
Basho Haiku Monument is on the Nishizaka of the Hakone Hachiri
source : only1tanuki
source :deviantart.com
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and for good measure
深川や芭蕉を富士にあずけゆく
Fukagawa ya bashoo o Fuji ni azuke-yuku
Fukagawa -
leaving the "banana tree" in the care
of Mount Fuji
Tr. Gabi Greve
Chiri 1684
Chiri was a student of Basho, who accompanied him on the Nozarashi trip in Jokyo 1 (1684). Basho was 41 years old at the time.
Chiri wrote this haiku during their visit to Mt. Fuji. In this haiku, the student is parting with Basho to travel on to another place, leaving him at the foot of Mt. Fuji in the care of the mountain. The haiku contains kake-kotoba, a word with a double meaning.
The word, 'Basho' means both the basho plant (musa/banana) which grew by Basho's hut at Fukagawa.
It also is, of course, the master's haigo (haiku name).
This hokku has the cut marker YA at the end of line 1.
Fukagawa -
leaving the basho tree
to Mount Fuji's care
Tr. Barnhill
We depart,
leaving the bashō.
To Mount Fuji
Tr. Blyth
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In the waka tradition, the poetic hon’i of Mount Fuji lies in its lofty peak covered by white snow. The following waka from Ogura hyakunin isshu (The Ogura sequence of one hundred poems by one hundred poets)93 is a typical example:
At Tago Bay
I came out, and looked afar—
to see the hemp-white
of Mount Fuji’s lofty peak
under a flurry of snow.
tago no ura/ uchiidete mireba/ shirotae no/ Fuji no takane ni/ yuki wa furitsutsu
Bashô’s poem, however, gives no attention to the classical essence of Mount Fuji defined by the waka tradition, although he does mention the peak in the short haibun that precedes the poem. Even in his haibun, the depiction of the geographical features of Mount Fuji is minimized, mystified, and projected through the poet’s imagination of famous Daoist sites—Kunlun, Penglai, Fangzhang, and Gushe.
. . . The juxtaposition of Mount Fuji and the Daoist toponyms presents a symbolic landscape carefully designed: the appearances and definitions of the geographical space have changed as the visitor reimagines it through a Daoist perspective. Mount Fuji is no longer simply a place of physical grandeur; it has become an aesthetic landscape whose wonder manifests the power of zôka.
In this context, Bashô’s avoidance of portraying Mount Fuji reveals his aesthetic belief that the creation of zôka is so magnificent that no language can properly describe it.
source : Basho-and-the-Dao - Peipei-Qiu
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. WKD : Mount Fuji 富士山, Fuji-san, or Fujiyama, .
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- Fuji 富士山 Mount Fujisan -
In the Edo of the times of Basho, Mount Fuji could be seen from many places.
First view of Mount Fuji, hatsu Fuji 初富士
is an important kigo for the New Year.
. WKD : Mount Fuji 富士山, Fuji-san, or Fujiyama, .
Basho wrote quite a few hokku about this famous mountain, Fuji no Yama.
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April 2013
Mount Fuji on verge of World Heritage listing
An important UNESCO panel has recommended that World Heritage status be granted to Mount Fuji, putting the iconic peak on a direct path to registration.
Japan’s tallest mountain is expected to be formally listed in June when the World Heritage Committee meets in Cambodia.
IMOCOS noted that the mountain is a national symbol of Japan and blends religious and artistic traditions, government officials said.
source : Japan Times, April 2013
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On Mount Fuji
Mount Kunlun is said to be far away, and in Mount Penglai and Mount Fangzhang dwell Daoist immortals. But right here before my eyes: Mount Fuji's great peak rises from the earth. It seems to hold up the blue heavens and open the cloud gate for the sun and moon.
From wherever I gaze, there is a consummate vista as the beautiful scenery goes through a thousand changes. Even poets can't exhaust this scene in verse; those with great talent and men of letters give up their words; painters too abandon their bushes and flee.
If the demigods of faraway Gushe Mountain were to appear, I wonder if even they could succeed in putting this scene into a poem or a painting.
雲霧の暫時百景を尽しけり
kumo kiri no zanji hyakkei o tsukushi keri
with clouds and mist
in a brief moment a hundred scenes
brought to fulfillment
Tr. Barnhill
This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment - Roger S. Gottlieb
source : books.google.co.jp
Written in 1684 貞亨元年
. 野ざらし紀行 Nozarashi Kiko .
. Chinese background of Japanese haiku .
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富士の風や扇にのせて江戸土産
. Fuji no kaze ya oogi ni nosete Edo miyage .
wind from Mount Fuji
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cha-usu 茶臼 tea grinding mortar
富士の山蚤が茶臼の覆かな
Fuji no yama nomi ga chausu no ooi kana / cha-usu
Mount Fuji
like the tea-grinding mill
carried by the lice . . .
Basho age 33
To compare Mount Fuji to a cha-usu, a mill for grinding tea leaves, has been done since olden times.
This is complete fiction to show the greatness of Mount Fuji.
There was a popular song in Edo to which Basho is referring
蚤が茶臼を背たら負うて、背たら負うて、
富士のお山をちょいと越えた
The lice are carrying a tea-grinding mill
carrying it on their back
just trying to climb over Mount Fuji.
It was also a popular game to cover a tea-grinding mill with strong washi paper to make it look like Mount Fuji.
source : turbo717
Mount Fuji seen from the mountain hut called
Chausu 茶臼小屋は富士山
at the foot of Mount Chausu 茶臼岳
. WKD : Cha Tea Tee Chai - cha-usu.
.............................................................................
富士の雪廬生が夢を築かせたり
. Fuji no yuki Rosei ga yume o tsukasetari .
snow on Mount Fuji
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一尾根はしぐるる雲か富士の雪
hito one wa shigururu kumo ka Fuji no yuki
over one ridge
do I see winter rain clouds?
snow for Mt. Fuji
The above haiku is a beautiful 'winter landscape painting' on a large scale, in which you are viewing Mt. Fuji in relation to its surrounding mountain families. In the centre, you see Mt. Fuji covered with snow in all its glories. And you also see other mountain-families where probably snow does not reach, as they are not high enough. Your eyes travel from right to left and from left to right, surveying many different things happening. Over one ridge (o-ne) are winter clouds unloading their cargo. However, of all the mountains how tall, superb and magnificent the snow-covered Mt. Fuji is!
This haiku is famous for depicting the superiority of Mt. Fuji in relation to other mountain families.
Basho was 44 years old when he wrote this haiku in the year of 4 Jokyo (1687). He had left Edo on 25 October for the trip to his hometown. This haiku is recorded in Hakusen-Shu.
. Etsuko Yanagibori.
is one ridge
clouded with winter showers?
Fuji in snow
Tr. Barnhill
Written in the 11th lunar month of 1687, 貞亨4年11月
Maybe at the tea house Yuzu no Ki Chaya 柚木の茶屋.
In the year 1817 a stone monument was erected by a samurai 野楊 from the Kameyama domain in Tanba 丹波亀山藩士野楊.
. Oi no Kobumi 笈の小文 .
.............................................................................
雲を根に富士は杉形の茂りかな
. kumo o ne ni Fuji wa suginari no shigeri kana .
green foilage of Mount Fuji
目にかかる時やことさら五月富士
. me ni kakaru toki ya kotosara satsuki Fuji .
Mount Fuji in the month of satsuki (May)
.............................................................................
霧時雨富士を見ぬ日ぞ面白き
. kiri shigure Fuji o minu hi zo omoshiroki .
Fuji in fog and cold drizzle
Shrouded in the dense fog of late autumn rains--
Fuji is unseen for the day.
Intriguing!
Tr. only1tanuki
Basho Haiku Monument is on the Nishizaka of the Hakone Hachiri
source : only1tanuki
source :deviantart.com
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and for good measure
深川や芭蕉を富士にあずけゆく
Fukagawa ya bashoo o Fuji ni azuke-yuku
Fukagawa -
leaving the "banana tree" in the care
of Mount Fuji
Tr. Gabi Greve
Chiri 1684
Chiri was a student of Basho, who accompanied him on the Nozarashi trip in Jokyo 1 (1684). Basho was 41 years old at the time.
Chiri wrote this haiku during their visit to Mt. Fuji. In this haiku, the student is parting with Basho to travel on to another place, leaving him at the foot of Mt. Fuji in the care of the mountain. The haiku contains kake-kotoba, a word with a double meaning.
The word, 'Basho' means both the basho plant (musa/banana) which grew by Basho's hut at Fukagawa.
It also is, of course, the master's haigo (haiku name).
This hokku has the cut marker YA at the end of line 1.
Fukagawa -
leaving the basho tree
to Mount Fuji's care
Tr. Barnhill
We depart,
leaving the bashō.
To Mount Fuji
Tr. Blyth
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quote
In the waka tradition, the poetic hon’i of Mount Fuji lies in its lofty peak covered by white snow. The following waka from Ogura hyakunin isshu (The Ogura sequence of one hundred poems by one hundred poets)93 is a typical example:
At Tago Bay
I came out, and looked afar—
to see the hemp-white
of Mount Fuji’s lofty peak
under a flurry of snow.
tago no ura/ uchiidete mireba/ shirotae no/ Fuji no takane ni/ yuki wa furitsutsu
Bashô’s poem, however, gives no attention to the classical essence of Mount Fuji defined by the waka tradition, although he does mention the peak in the short haibun that precedes the poem. Even in his haibun, the depiction of the geographical features of Mount Fuji is minimized, mystified, and projected through the poet’s imagination of famous Daoist sites—Kunlun, Penglai, Fangzhang, and Gushe.
. . . The juxtaposition of Mount Fuji and the Daoist toponyms presents a symbolic landscape carefully designed: the appearances and definitions of the geographical space have changed as the visitor reimagines it through a Daoist perspective. Mount Fuji is no longer simply a place of physical grandeur; it has become an aesthetic landscape whose wonder manifests the power of zôka.
In this context, Bashô’s avoidance of portraying Mount Fuji reveals his aesthetic belief that the creation of zôka is so magnificent that no language can properly describe it.
source : Basho-and-the-Dao - Peipei-Qiu
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. WKD : Mount Fuji 富士山, Fuji-san, or Fujiyama, .
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Food haiku
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- Haiku about Food - Essen -
more haiku about food are featured
in the ABC index of these archives.
This list is still growing. Please come back sometime.
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青ざしや草餅の穂に出でつらん
aozashi ya kusa mochi no ho ni ide tsuran
green grain crackers
the wheat ears come out of
veggie cookies
Tr. Reichhold
Written in 1683 天和3年, Basho was 40.
A sweet made of parched green wheat flour and twisted like a thread.
. Aozashi 青挿 (あおざし, 青ざし)
"fresh wheat sweets" .
aozashi 青ざし五巻文 - 青緡〔あおざし〕五貫文 referres to the new coins of Edo, bound with a rope through a hole in the middle of each coin.
誰が聟ぞ歯朶に餅おふ しの年
. taga muko zo shida ni mochi ou ushi no toshi .
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時鳥鰹を染めにけりけらし
hototogisu katsuo o some ni keri kerashi
the cuckoo
has stained the fish
I suppose
Tr. Reichhold
Maybe the bush warbler
sang too much
this skipjack
Basho is having dinner at the home of a wealthy retainer of the Akimono clan and is served skipjack, a thuna that we call AKU in Hawai'i.
It is something exotic for him, and he fancies that the bush warbler must have sung too much. The bush warbler is said to gush blood when it was that enthusiastic.
Tr. and comment : Robert Aitken
Written in 1681 天和元年 Basho was 38.
The sashimi raw meat of skipjack is quite dark red.
blood-red sunrise -
today's dinner is
katsuo sashimi
Gabi Greve
October 6, 2012
Just after writing the above text about Basho and his katsuo sashimi, we had the most impressive sunrise, with rain clouds already in the West and stark red above the pines in the East.
. Kamakura o ikite ideken hatsugatsuo .
(summer) first katsuo bonito. town of Kamakura. to be alive
MORE bonito hokku by Basho
. WKD : katsuo 鰹 bonito .
skipjack tuna - Katsuwonus pelamis
. katsuo uri ikanaru hito o yowasuran .
(summer) first skipjack katsuo. vendor, fish monger. charming people
. . . . . and
又越む佐夜の中山はつ松魚
mata koemu Sayo no Nakayama hatsugatsuo
summer) first skipjack katsuo bonito. Sayo no Nakayama pass. to cross again
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春立つや新年ふるき米五升
haru tatsu ya shinnen furuki kome goshoo
spring arises
ten quarts of old rice
in the new year
Tr. Reichhold
spring begins--
new year, old rice
ten quarts
Tr. Ueda
spring begins--
in a new year,
ten quarts of old rice
Tr. Barnhill
Written in 1684 貞亨元年. Basho age 41.
Basho used a dry hollow gourd as a box to keep his rice grains 米櫃の瓢, which could only hold five sho of rice. It was a kind of symbol for a poor man.
It was famous and called 四山の瓢, a name given by Yamaguchi Sodoo 素堂 Sodo.
1 shoo しょう【升】ca. 1.8 litres
Rice grains are called "kome, mai 米".
On the table and cooked, it is called "Gohan" ご飯 or "meshi" 飯 めし.
. Rice in various kigo .
. Masu 升 measuring cup .
and another haiku by Basho !
masu katte funbetsu kawaru tsukimi kana
芭蕉『四山瓢』
source : edosodou
ものひとつ瓢はかろき我よかな
mono hitotsu hisago wa karuki waga yo kana
. mono hitotsu waga yo wa karoki hisago kana .
just one possession,
my world light
as a gourd
Tr. Barnhill
With a further discussion of the gourd haiku.
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煩へば餅をも喰はず桃の花
wazuraeba mochi o mo kuwazu momo no hana
overcome with illness,
I can't even eat a rice cake:
peach blossoms
Tr. Barnhill
since I'm sick
not eating a rice bar
peach flowers
Tr. Reichhold
Written in 1686 貞亨３年
It seems Basho was suffering from some stomach illness. So even on this special day he could not eat the festive mochi rice cakes.
But at least he could write a haiku about it.
because I am sick
I can not even eat a festive rice cake -
peach blossom time
Tr. Gabi Greve
. Momo no sekku 桃の節句 Peach Blossom Festival .
The Hina Doll Festival, March 3.
The festive rice cakes are called
. hishi mochi 菱餅 (ひしもち) Hishimochi rice cakes .
red, white, and green lozenge-shaped rice cakes
. Rice cakes (mochi 餅) .
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五つ六つ茶の子にならぶ囲炉裏哉
itsutsu mutsu cha no ko ni narabu irori kana
five or six
sitting with tea and cake
a fireplace
Tr. Reichhold
five or six of us
lined up before the tea cakes:
the sunken hearth
Tr. Barnhill
Written in Winter 1688/89.
Further discussion of this haiku:
. Snacks with Tea (cha no ko お茶の子) .
. open Japanese hearth, irori 囲炉裏 .
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秋涼し手毎にむけや瓜茄子
aki suzushi te goto ni muke ya uri nasubi
[headnote]
'Invited to a Certain Grass Hut'
autumn coolness
each peeling with our hands
melons and eggplants
Tr. Reichhold
'I was invited to a certain grass hut'
autumn is cool
let each hand set to peeling
melons and eggplants
Tr. Barnhill
Barnhill notes that an earlier version goes like this:
残暑しばし手毎に料れ瓜茄子
zansho shibashi tegoto ni ryoore uri nasubi
summer heat lingers,
let's set our hands to cooking
melon and eggplants
Oku no Hosomichi, Kanazawa 7月15日 - 23日
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
. Eggplant kigo 茄子 なすび .
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霰せば網代の氷魚煮て出さん
arare seba ajiro no hio o nite dasan
[headnote]
'People from Zeze have visited me at my cottage.'
if it hails
ice fish from the trap
I'll served cooked
Tr. Reichhold
'With many people visiting my grass hut in Zeze,'
if it hails
I'll cook and serve
wicker-caught whitebait
Tr. Barnhill
Written in December of 1689 元禄2年12月
source :itoyo/basho
Memorial stone at Otsu town, Shiga 滋賀県大津市田上南郷
"Well, my friends, thanks for coming to share my humble meal of fish.
If it would now start to hail, that would enhance our elegant fuuryuu 風流 enjoyment even more!"
Ajiro fish traps are prepared in late autumn and used in winter till spring.
The fish are then cooked in sweet soy sauce for a delicious meal.
. WKD : ajiro 網代 (あじろ) wickerwork fishtraps .
. hiuo, hio 氷魚 (ひうお) small ayu trout .
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compiled by Larry Bole - source : Happy Haiku Group
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秋の色糠味噌壷もなかりけり
aki no iro nukamiso tsubo mo nakari keri
Kukuu 句空 Kuku had asked Basho for a hokku that he could add to a scroll painting of priest Kenkoo 兼好法師 Kenko called "Nukamiso tsubo".
Written in 1691 元禄4年, Basho age 48
Kenko did not have much possesions, some say only one pot to wash his hands and take his meal. He kept this possession on his daily walks praying for food.
nukamiso salted rice-bran paste for pickling, barley miso
. WASHOKU - Miso (みそ or 味噌) Miso paste .
This is kept in special pots with a lid, even now in the "color of autumn".
This hokku is one sentence and has the cut marker KERI at the end of line 3.
It is best to start the translation from the end.
he does not even have
a pot in the colors of autumn
for fermented miso paste . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
. Yoshida Kenkoo 吉田兼好 Yoshida Kenko .
(1283? – 1350?)
Tsurezuregusa - "Essays in Idleness"
Matsuo Basho visiting his diciple Kukuu 句空 Kuku.
. - Gichuuji 義仲寺 Temple Gichu-Ji - .
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. ALL haiku about mochi 餅 rice cakes .
mezurashi ya yama o Dewa no hatsu nasubi
First Minden-Eggplants from Dewa
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haiku about cooked rice 飯 meshi
. asagao ni ware wa meshi kuu otoko kana .
(autumn) morning glories. I am a man eating rice
花にうき世我が酒白く飯黒し
. hana ni ukiyo waga sake shiroku meshi kuroshi .
(spring) cherry blossoms. floating world. white ricewine. black rice
飯あふぐ嚊が馳走や夕涼み
. meshi augu kaka ga chisoo ya yuu suzumi .
(summer) evening cool. boiled rice as a treat. old lady or wife
kaka 嚊 is an old word, derived from "okaasan お母さん", mother, used fondly for one's own wife. Here Basho shows a gentle evening scene, when the husband is back home from field work and his wife prepares the meal.
麦飯にやつるる恋か猫の妻
. mugi meshi ni yatsururu koi ka neko no tsuma .
水向けて跡訪ひたまえ道明寺
. mizu mukete ato toi tamae doomyooji .
cold rice from temple Domyo-Ji 道明寺
忘れ草菜飯に摘まん年の暮
. wasuregusa nameshi ni tsuman toshi no kure .
(winter) end of the year. licorice. rice gruel with rapeseen leaves
. . . . .
. WKD : "Gohan" ご飯 or "meshi" 飯 めし..
- including
似合はしや豆の粉飯に桜狩り
niawashi ya mame no ko meshi ni sakura-gari
bean-flour rice balls
我がためか鶴食み残す芹の飯
waga tame ka tsuru hami-nokosu seri no meshi
rice with dropwort
- - - - -
zoozu, zoosui, zosui 雑水 (ざふすい) dirty water
after washing rice or rinsing dishes
Basho uses the old spelling, but now it is an old version for
zoosui 雑炊 rice porridge
In the Edo period, this watery rice with some leaves of radish was the daily fare of the very poor. Now it is a favorite dish for dieting and also given to ill and recuperating people.
雑水に琵琶聴く軒の霰かな
zoosui ni biwa kiku noki no arare kana
while I eat my rice porridge
hail falling on the eaves sounds
like a biwa lute . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
Written in 貞亨元年, Basho age 41 or later
at Arisoumi 有磯海. Basho is most probably home in Fukagawa and has a lonely meal.
All kinds of zoosui
. WKD : Zoosui 雑炊 (ぞうすい) rice porridge.
kigo for winter
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haiku about SOUP 汁
. norijiru 海苔汁 laver seaweed soup .
- including
牡蠣よりは海苔をば老の売りもせで
kaki yori wa nori o ba oi no uri mo sede
海苔汁の手際見せけり浅黄椀
nori jiru no tegiwa mise keri asagi wan
衰ひや歯に喰ひ当てし海苔の砂
otoroi ya ha ni kuiateshi nori no suna
. . . . .
. ara nani tomo ya kinoo wa sugite fukutojiru .
(winter) fugu blowfish soup
. chisa wa mada aoba nagara ni nasubi-jiru .
(summer) eggplant soup. salad. green
. kakusanu zo yado wa najiru ni toogarashi .
(autumn) red pepper. do not hide. home. leafy vegetable soup
. ki no moto ni shiru mo namasu mo sakura kana .
(spring) cherry blossoms. under trees. soup. fish salad
. suimono wa mazu dekasareshi Suizenji .
(summer) seaweed from temple Suizen-Ji水前寺. soup
. ume wakana Mariko no yado no tororo jiru .
(autumn) yam soup. plum and young greens. postal station of Mariko
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Continued
. MORE Haiku about Food by Matsuo Basho .
inochi koso imo dane yo mata kyoo no tsuki
- taro potatoes
wasuregusa nameshi ni tsuman toshi no kure
- licorice leaves and rapeseed rice gruel
shio ni shi te mo iza kotozute n miyako-dori
- hooded gull pickles with salt
kanashiman ya Bokushi seriyaki o mite mo nao
- dropwrot with cooked duck
yuki no ashita hitori karazake o kami etari
- chewing on dried salmon
asu wa chimaki Naniwa no kareha yume nare ya
- Chimaki ritual rice cakes
. chimaki yuu katate ni hasamu hitai gami .
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. Haiku Sweets 俳菓 haika .
The hokku by Basho featured here are not about food, though.
Only the sweets are all formed and named after his poems.
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. - cha 茶 tea - Tee - .
drinking tea with Basho
. daiko, daikon 大根 white radish .
. ebi niru 海老煮る cooking shrimp .
. Hidara 干鱈 ひだら dried codfish, haddock .
. konnyaku 蒟蒻 Devil's-tongue .
used for well-liked dishes by Basho
. namasu 膾 pickled food .
. nattoo 納豆 Natto. fermented beans.
. nyuumen 煮麺 hot wheat noodles .
. sato-imo, sato imo, imo 里芋 taro .
Colocasia antiquorum
. toofu 豆腐 Tofu, bean curd .
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清滝の水汲ませてやところてん
. Kiyotaki no mizu kumasete ya tokoroten .
(summer) Tokoroten jelly. draw water from river Kiyotaki
for Sakai Yamei 坂井野明 in Sagano, Kyoto.
水無月や鯛はあれども塩鯨
. minazuki ya tai wa aredomo shiokujira . .
sea bream and salted whale meat
夏の夜や崩れて明けし冷し物
. natsu no yo ya kuzurete akeshi hiyashi mono .
hiyashimono - chilled food after a banquet
躑躅生けてその陰に干鱈割く女
. tsutsuji ikete sono kage ni hidara saku onna .
(spring) dried cod fish. azaleas. in the shadow a woman
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. - sake 酒 ricewine -
- sakazuki 杯 ricewine cup - .
more haiku about food are featured
in the ABC index of these archives.
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. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 wrote .
Today I was feeling sorry for myself for being poor simply because I wasn't able to eat a third meal, but when Basho went wandering long ago, he ate only two meals every single day.
三度くふ旅もったいな時雨雲
sando kuu tabi mottaina shigure-gumo
it's outrageous to travel
wanting three meals a day --
winter rain clouds
This hokku is from lunar 10/12 (November 25) in 1803, the lunar-calendar date on which Basho died and on which memorial services for him were held annually at Gichuji Temple near Kyoto, where he is buried, and at many other places by haikai poets. One of the names for Basho's memorial day is shigure-ki, or Cold Rain Memorial, since cold rain showers often fall in late autumn and early winter. The tenth month is the first month of lunar winter, so this is a winter hokku. On this date in 1803 Issa sees dark clouds in the sky. A fast-moving shower is either approaching or passing by a few miles away, and this gives a double meaning to the last line.
The word mottaina, 'wrong, outrageous,' in the second line had a stronger meaning in Issa's time than it does in modern Japanese, and Issa seems genuinely ashamed of his petty desire for more food as he walks along. The last two days he has been staying with his haikai poet friend and wealthy patron Furuta Gessen, with whom he has been discussing both haikai and the ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry (Shijing, in Japanese Shikyou). During Issa's stay, his host Gessen surely treated him well and served him three very nice meals a day, and while he stays in Edo Issa no doubt often eats three meals a day, since he meets many friends, students, and patrons there, although during his years of traveling in western Japan it is likely he usually ate twice a day, a style of eating common among people who aren't wealthy, so this isn't the first time Issa has traveled on only two meals a day.
On the day Issa writes this hokku he is traveling from the town of Fukawa, where Gessen lives, to Tagawa, further east. Both towns are on the northern bank of the Tone River northeast of the city of Edo. His desire for food and his dislike of being poor, both of which seem to have increased after staying with the wealthy Gessen, seem to make Issa feel ashamed of himself when he thinks of Basho on this day, since he reveres Basho and is trying hard to learn from him. He is surely conscious that his own personality, lifestyle, and haikai style are all fairly different from Basho's, yet he feels Basho's emphasis on positively embracing poverty, on enduring hardship, and on minimalistic wabi are worthy goals he also needs to embrace to a certain extent. The dark rain clouds in the hokku may therefore have a third meaning. They may suggest Issa's acute sense of his own of imperfection in the eyes of Basho, who, Issa seems to believe, would stare rather severely at Issa if he were still alive and could read Issa's mind and his haikai. Issa has many hokku about his own imperfection, but the thought of the superego-like Basho seems to make Issa feel his shortcomings even more strongly than usual.
Chris Drake
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more haiku about food are featured
in the ABC index of these archives.
This list is still growing. Please come back sometime.
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青ざしや草餅の穂に出でつらん
aozashi ya kusa mochi no ho ni ide tsuran
green grain crackers
the wheat ears come out of
veggie cookies
Tr. Reichhold
Written in 1683 天和3年, Basho was 40.
A sweet made of parched green wheat flour and twisted like a thread.
. Aozashi 青挿 (あおざし, 青ざし)
"fresh wheat sweets" .
aozashi 青ざし五巻文 - 青緡〔あおざし〕五貫文 referres to the new coins of Edo, bound with a rope through a hole in the middle of each coin.
誰が聟ぞ歯朶に餅おふ しの年
. taga muko zo shida ni mochi ou ushi no toshi .
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時鳥鰹を染めにけりけらし
hototogisu katsuo o some ni keri kerashi
the cuckoo
has stained the fish
I suppose
Tr. Reichhold
Maybe the bush warbler
sang too much
this skipjack
Basho is having dinner at the home of a wealthy retainer of the Akimono clan and is served skipjack, a thuna that we call AKU in Hawai'i.
It is something exotic for him, and he fancies that the bush warbler must have sung too much. The bush warbler is said to gush blood when it was that enthusiastic.
Tr. and comment : Robert Aitken
Written in 1681 天和元年 Basho was 38.
The sashimi raw meat of skipjack is quite dark red.
blood-red sunrise -
today's dinner is
katsuo sashimi
Gabi Greve
October 6, 2012
Just after writing the above text about Basho and his katsuo sashimi, we had the most impressive sunrise, with rain clouds already in the West and stark red above the pines in the East.
. Kamakura o ikite ideken hatsugatsuo .
(summer) first katsuo bonito. town of Kamakura. to be alive
MORE bonito hokku by Basho
. WKD : katsuo 鰹 bonito .
skipjack tuna - Katsuwonus pelamis
. katsuo uri ikanaru hito o yowasuran .
(summer) first skipjack katsuo. vendor, fish monger. charming people
. . . . . and
又越む佐夜の中山はつ松魚
mata koemu Sayo no Nakayama hatsugatsuo
summer) first skipjack katsuo bonito. Sayo no Nakayama pass. to cross again
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春立つや新年ふるき米五升
haru tatsu ya shinnen furuki kome goshoo
spring arises
ten quarts of old rice
in the new year
Tr. Reichhold
spring begins--
new year, old rice
ten quarts
Tr. Ueda
spring begins--
in a new year,
ten quarts of old rice
Tr. Barnhill
Written in 1684 貞亨元年. Basho age 41.
Basho used a dry hollow gourd as a box to keep his rice grains 米櫃の瓢, which could only hold five sho of rice. It was a kind of symbol for a poor man.
It was famous and called 四山の瓢, a name given by Yamaguchi Sodoo 素堂 Sodo.
1 shoo しょう【升】ca. 1.8 litres
Rice grains are called "kome, mai 米".
On the table and cooked, it is called "Gohan" ご飯 or "meshi" 飯 めし.
. Rice in various kigo .
. Masu 升 measuring cup .
and another haiku by Basho !
masu katte funbetsu kawaru tsukimi kana
芭蕉『四山瓢』
source : edosodou
ものひとつ瓢はかろき我よかな
mono hitotsu hisago wa karuki waga yo kana
. mono hitotsu waga yo wa karoki hisago kana .
just one possession,
my world light
as a gourd
Tr. Barnhill
With a further discussion of the gourd haiku.
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煩へば餅をも喰はず桃の花
wazuraeba mochi o mo kuwazu momo no hana
overcome with illness,
I can't even eat a rice cake:
peach blossoms
Tr. Barnhill
since I'm sick
not eating a rice bar
peach flowers
Tr. Reichhold
Written in 1686 貞亨３年
It seems Basho was suffering from some stomach illness. So even on this special day he could not eat the festive mochi rice cakes.
But at least he could write a haiku about it.
because I am sick
I can not even eat a festive rice cake -
peach blossom time
Tr. Gabi Greve
. Momo no sekku 桃の節句 Peach Blossom Festival .
The Hina Doll Festival, March 3.
The festive rice cakes are called
. hishi mochi 菱餅 (ひしもち) Hishimochi rice cakes .
red, white, and green lozenge-shaped rice cakes
. Rice cakes (mochi 餅) .
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五つ六つ茶の子にならぶ囲炉裏哉
itsutsu mutsu cha no ko ni narabu irori kana
five or six
sitting with tea and cake
a fireplace
Tr. Reichhold
five or six of us
lined up before the tea cakes:
the sunken hearth
Tr. Barnhill
Written in Winter 1688/89.
Further discussion of this haiku:
. Snacks with Tea (cha no ko お茶の子) .
. open Japanese hearth, irori 囲炉裏 .
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秋涼し手毎にむけや瓜茄子
aki suzushi te goto ni muke ya uri nasubi
[headnote]
'Invited to a Certain Grass Hut'
autumn coolness
each peeling with our hands
melons and eggplants
Tr. Reichhold
'I was invited to a certain grass hut'
autumn is cool
let each hand set to peeling
melons and eggplants
Tr. Barnhill
Barnhill notes that an earlier version goes like this:
残暑しばし手毎に料れ瓜茄子
zansho shibashi tegoto ni ryoore uri nasubi
summer heat lingers,
let's set our hands to cooking
melon and eggplants
Oku no Hosomichi, Kanazawa 7月15日 - 23日
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
. Eggplant kigo 茄子 なすび .
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霰せば網代の氷魚煮て出さん
arare seba ajiro no hio o nite dasan
[headnote]
'People from Zeze have visited me at my cottage.'
if it hails
ice fish from the trap
I'll served cooked
Tr. Reichhold
'With many people visiting my grass hut in Zeze,'
if it hails
I'll cook and serve
wicker-caught whitebait
Tr. Barnhill
Written in December of 1689 元禄2年12月
source :itoyo/basho
Memorial stone at Otsu town, Shiga 滋賀県大津市田上南郷
"Well, my friends, thanks for coming to share my humble meal of fish.
If it would now start to hail, that would enhance our elegant fuuryuu 風流 enjoyment even more!"
Ajiro fish traps are prepared in late autumn and used in winter till spring.
The fish are then cooked in sweet soy sauce for a delicious meal.
. WKD : ajiro 網代 (あじろ) wickerwork fishtraps .
. hiuo, hio 氷魚 (ひうお) small ayu trout .
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compiled by Larry Bole - source : Happy Haiku Group
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秋の色糠味噌壷もなかりけり
aki no iro nukamiso tsubo mo nakari keri
Kukuu 句空 Kuku had asked Basho for a hokku that he could add to a scroll painting of priest Kenkoo 兼好法師 Kenko called "Nukamiso tsubo".
Written in 1691 元禄4年, Basho age 48
Kenko did not have much possesions, some say only one pot to wash his hands and take his meal. He kept this possession on his daily walks praying for food.
nukamiso salted rice-bran paste for pickling, barley miso
. WASHOKU - Miso (みそ or 味噌) Miso paste .
This is kept in special pots with a lid, even now in the "color of autumn".
This hokku is one sentence and has the cut marker KERI at the end of line 3.
It is best to start the translation from the end.
he does not even have
a pot in the colors of autumn
for fermented miso paste . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
. Yoshida Kenkoo 吉田兼好 Yoshida Kenko .
(1283? – 1350?)
Tsurezuregusa - "Essays in Idleness"
Matsuo Basho visiting his diciple Kukuu 句空 Kuku.
. - Gichuuji 義仲寺 Temple Gichu-Ji - .
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. ALL haiku about mochi 餅 rice cakes .
mezurashi ya yama o Dewa no hatsu nasubi
First Minden-Eggplants from Dewa
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haiku about cooked rice 飯 meshi
. asagao ni ware wa meshi kuu otoko kana .
(autumn) morning glories. I am a man eating rice
花にうき世我が酒白く飯黒し
. hana ni ukiyo waga sake shiroku meshi kuroshi .
(spring) cherry blossoms. floating world. white ricewine. black rice
飯あふぐ嚊が馳走や夕涼み
. meshi augu kaka ga chisoo ya yuu suzumi .
(summer) evening cool. boiled rice as a treat. old lady or wife
kaka 嚊 is an old word, derived from "okaasan お母さん", mother, used fondly for one's own wife. Here Basho shows a gentle evening scene, when the husband is back home from field work and his wife prepares the meal.
麦飯にやつるる恋か猫の妻
. mugi meshi ni yatsururu koi ka neko no tsuma .
水向けて跡訪ひたまえ道明寺
. mizu mukete ato toi tamae doomyooji .
cold rice from temple Domyo-Ji 道明寺
忘れ草菜飯に摘まん年の暮
. wasuregusa nameshi ni tsuman toshi no kure .
(winter) end of the year. licorice. rice gruel with rapeseen leaves
. . . . .
. WKD : "Gohan" ご飯 or "meshi" 飯 めし..
- including
似合はしや豆の粉飯に桜狩り
niawashi ya mame no ko meshi ni sakura-gari
bean-flour rice balls
我がためか鶴食み残す芹の飯
waga tame ka tsuru hami-nokosu seri no meshi
rice with dropwort
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zoozu, zoosui, zosui 雑水 (ざふすい) dirty water
after washing rice or rinsing dishes
Basho uses the old spelling, but now it is an old version for
zoosui 雑炊 rice porridge
In the Edo period, this watery rice with some leaves of radish was the daily fare of the very poor. Now it is a favorite dish for dieting and also given to ill and recuperating people.
雑水に琵琶聴く軒の霰かな
zoosui ni biwa kiku noki no arare kana
while I eat my rice porridge
hail falling on the eaves sounds
like a biwa lute . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
Written in 貞亨元年, Basho age 41 or later
at Arisoumi 有磯海. Basho is most probably home in Fukagawa and has a lonely meal.
All kinds of zoosui
. WKD : Zoosui 雑炊 (ぞうすい) rice porridge.
kigo for winter
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haiku about SOUP 汁
. norijiru 海苔汁 laver seaweed soup .
- including
牡蠣よりは海苔をば老の売りもせで
kaki yori wa nori o ba oi no uri mo sede
海苔汁の手際見せけり浅黄椀
nori jiru no tegiwa mise keri asagi wan
衰ひや歯に喰ひ当てし海苔の砂
otoroi ya ha ni kuiateshi nori no suna
. . . . .
. ara nani tomo ya kinoo wa sugite fukutojiru .
(winter) fugu blowfish soup
. chisa wa mada aoba nagara ni nasubi-jiru .
(summer) eggplant soup. salad. green
. kakusanu zo yado wa najiru ni toogarashi .
(autumn) red pepper. do not hide. home. leafy vegetable soup
. ki no moto ni shiru mo namasu mo sakura kana .
(spring) cherry blossoms. under trees. soup. fish salad
. suimono wa mazu dekasareshi Suizenji .
(summer) seaweed from temple Suizen-Ji水前寺. soup
. ume wakana Mariko no yado no tororo jiru .
(autumn) yam soup. plum and young greens. postal station of Mariko
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Continued
. MORE Haiku about Food by Matsuo Basho .
inochi koso imo dane yo mata kyoo no tsuki
- taro potatoes
wasuregusa nameshi ni tsuman toshi no kure
- licorice leaves and rapeseed rice gruel
shio ni shi te mo iza kotozute n miyako-dori
- hooded gull pickles with salt
kanashiman ya Bokushi seriyaki o mite mo nao
- dropwrot with cooked duck
yuki no ashita hitori karazake o kami etari
- chewing on dried salmon
asu wa chimaki Naniwa no kareha yume nare ya
- Chimaki ritual rice cakes
. chimaki yuu katate ni hasamu hitai gami .
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. Haiku Sweets 俳菓 haika .
The hokku by Basho featured here are not about food, though.
Only the sweets are all formed and named after his poems.
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. - cha 茶 tea - Tee - .
drinking tea with Basho
. daiko, daikon 大根 white radish .
. ebi niru 海老煮る cooking shrimp .
. Hidara 干鱈 ひだら dried codfish, haddock .
. konnyaku 蒟蒻 Devil's-tongue .
used for well-liked dishes by Basho
. namasu 膾 pickled food .
. nattoo 納豆 Natto. fermented beans.
. nyuumen 煮麺 hot wheat noodles .
. sato-imo, sato imo, imo 里芋 taro .
Colocasia antiquorum
. toofu 豆腐 Tofu, bean curd .
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清滝の水汲ませてやところてん
. Kiyotaki no mizu kumasete ya tokoroten .
(summer) Tokoroten jelly. draw water from river Kiyotaki
for Sakai Yamei 坂井野明 in Sagano, Kyoto.
水無月や鯛はあれども塩鯨
. minazuki ya tai wa aredomo shiokujira . .
sea bream and salted whale meat
夏の夜や崩れて明けし冷し物
. natsu no yo ya kuzurete akeshi hiyashi mono .
hiyashimono - chilled food after a banquet
躑躅生けてその陰に干鱈割く女
. tsutsuji ikete sono kage ni hidara saku onna .
(spring) dried cod fish. azaleas. in the shadow a woman
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. - sake 酒 ricewine -
- sakazuki 杯 ricewine cup - .
more haiku about food are featured
in the ABC index of these archives.
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. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 wrote .
Today I was feeling sorry for myself for being poor simply because I wasn't able to eat a third meal, but when Basho went wandering long ago, he ate only two meals every single day.
三度くふ旅もったいな時雨雲
sando kuu tabi mottaina shigure-gumo
it's outrageous to travel
wanting three meals a day --
winter rain clouds
This hokku is from lunar 10/12 (November 25) in 1803, the lunar-calendar date on which Basho died and on which memorial services for him were held annually at Gichuji Temple near Kyoto, where he is buried, and at many other places by haikai poets. One of the names for Basho's memorial day is shigure-ki, or Cold Rain Memorial, since cold rain showers often fall in late autumn and early winter. The tenth month is the first month of lunar winter, so this is a winter hokku. On this date in 1803 Issa sees dark clouds in the sky. A fast-moving shower is either approaching or passing by a few miles away, and this gives a double meaning to the last line.
The word mottaina, 'wrong, outrageous,' in the second line had a stronger meaning in Issa's time than it does in modern Japanese, and Issa seems genuinely ashamed of his petty desire for more food as he walks along. The last two days he has been staying with his haikai poet friend and wealthy patron Furuta Gessen, with whom he has been discussing both haikai and the ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry (Shijing, in Japanese Shikyou). During Issa's stay, his host Gessen surely treated him well and served him three very nice meals a day, and while he stays in Edo Issa no doubt often eats three meals a day, since he meets many friends, students, and patrons there, although during his years of traveling in western Japan it is likely he usually ate twice a day, a style of eating common among people who aren't wealthy, so this isn't the first time Issa has traveled on only two meals a day.
On the day Issa writes this hokku he is traveling from the town of Fukawa, where Gessen lives, to Tagawa, further east. Both towns are on the northern bank of the Tone River northeast of the city of Edo. His desire for food and his dislike of being poor, both of which seem to have increased after staying with the wealthy Gessen, seem to make Issa feel ashamed of himself when he thinks of Basho on this day, since he reveres Basho and is trying hard to learn from him. He is surely conscious that his own personality, lifestyle, and haikai style are all fairly different from Basho's, yet he feels Basho's emphasis on positively embracing poverty, on enduring hardship, and on minimalistic wabi are worthy goals he also needs to embrace to a certain extent. The dark rain clouds in the hokku may therefore have a third meaning. They may suggest Issa's acute sense of his own of imperfection in the eyes of Basho, who, Issa seems to believe, would stare rather severely at Issa if he were still alive and could read Issa's mind and his haikai. Issa has many hokku about his own imperfection, but the thought of the superego-like Basho seems to make Issa feel his shortcomings even more strongly than usual.
Chris Drake
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