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03/06/2012

Yasomura Rotsu

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- Yasomura Rotsuu 八十村路通 Rotsu -

(? - 1738) It was said Rotsu was 90 when he died.

Rotsu was from Otsu in Omi. He was born at the temple Miidera 三井寺 and well versed in poetry and classical literature.
He was one of the eccentric disciples of Basho. He traveled as a mendicant begging monk around Japan for many years and later returned to a secular life.

He joined the Basho discipels in 1685 and lived for a while close to the Basho-An in Fukagawa Edo.
He could not accompany Basho for his trip to "Oku no Hosomichi" but went all the way to Tsuruga to meet him on the last leg of the trip.

He was one of the
. Fukagawa Happin 深川八貧 "Eight Beggars of Fukagawa" .

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Basho wrote this hokku for him:

草枕まことの華見しても来よ
. kusamakura makoto no hanami shite mo koyo .

this grass pillow -
go and experience some real
cherry blossom viewing
Tr. Gabi Greve

Written by Basho in 1690.
It is a farewell hokku for 八十村路通 Rotsu, who was off to a long trip.

"Take this opportunity for your new haikai travels to study more about poetry, blossoms and hokku!"

mite koi, mite koyo - a greeting for someone leaving.
go and come back and see things for yourself!

Rotsu met Basho again at Ogaki :

source : basyou2-bokuin
Rotsu is kneeling beside Basho

- - - Station 43 - Ogaki 大垣 - - -
. Oku no Hosomichi 奥の細道　.

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kusamakura makoto no hanami shite mo koyo

Grass pillow
true blossom viewing
do even come

comments are here
A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen : Robert Aitken
source : books.google.co.jp

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Rotsu compiled a collection of haikai poems in 1690, called

Haikai Kanjinchoo 俳諧勧進牒 - Collection to promote Haikai

The following poems by Basho Furabo 風羅坊 are listed:

これや世の煤に染まらぬ古合子
kore ya yo no susu ni somaranu furu gooshi / goosu / gabushi

well - this old set of bowls
is not colored by the soot
of this world

Written in December 1689, Genroku 2 元禄2年12月, In Zeze 膳所.
For Haikai Kanjin Choo 俳諧勧進牒 compiled by Yasomura Rotsuu 八十村路通 Rotsu.

Rotsu had left his bag with a set of five bowls at a lodging in Osaka. The proprietor of the inn delivered it seven years later to Awazu (Shiga) and its owner was overjoyed.
When Basho heard this story, he wrote this hokku. It is a rare story of kindness and goodwill, even at the time of Basho.

The cut marker YA is in the middle of line 1.
The kigo here is suzuharai 煤払ひ wiping of the soot for New Year preparations.

. bowls for food offerings .

はつ雪や聖小憎の笈の色
. hatsuyuki ya hijiri kozoo no oi no iro .

蛇くふときけば恐ろし雉子の声
. hebi kuu to kikeba osoroshi kiji no koe .

大津絵の筆のはじめは何仏
. Ootsu e no fude no hajime wa nani botoke .

野を横に馬引むけよほとゝぎす
. no o yoko ni uma hikimuke yo hototogisu .

荒海や佐渡によこたふ天の川
.araumi ya Sado ni yokotau amanogawa / ara umi ya .

月さびよ明智が妻の咄しせむ
. tsuki sabiyo Akechi ga tsuma no hanashi sen .

梅若菜鞠子の宿のとろゝ汁
. ume wakana Mariko no yado no tororo jiru .

Included where also poems by 路通 Rotsu, 露沾 Rosen, 乙州 Otokuni, 其角 Kikaku and 仏頂 priest Butcho.

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Some of the hokku by Rotsu

鴨の巣の見えたりあるはかくれたり　
kamo no su no mietari aru wa kakuretari

the duck's nest
now it can be seen
now it is hidden

我まゝをいはする花のあるじ哉　（『あら野』）

はつ雪や先草履にて隣まで　（『あら野』）

元朝や何となけれど遅ざくら　（『あら野』）

水仙の見る間を春に得たりけり　（『あら野』）

ころもがへや白きは物に手のつかず　（『あら野』）

芦の穂やまねく哀れよりちるあはれ　（『あら野』）

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A legend from Kyoto 京都府 Fushimi 伏見区
Yasomura Rotsu 八十村路通, a disciple of the Haiku poet 芭蕉 Matsuo Basho had been to 伏見稲荷 Fushimi Inari Shrine where he met an old priest, who was in fact a fox from the home of a friend from 彦根 Hikone.
Rotsu asked the fox about Hikone and the fox was happy to entertain him.

. Legends from Fushimi, Kyoto .

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01/06/2012

Yado from Kyoto

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- Yadoo 野童 Yado -
(? - 1701) 元禄14年6月20日）

He was an official at Sentoo Gosho 仙洞御所 Sento Gosho Imperial Palace in Kyoto.
While on duty at night the imperial palace in 1701, he was struck by lightning and died suddenly.

His hokku teacher was Mukai Kyorai 向井去来.
Many of his hokku are in the collection Sarumino 猿蓑.

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The Sentō Imperial Palace (仙洞御所, Sentō-gosho)
is a large garden in Kyoto, Japan, formerly the grounds of a palace for retired emperors (Emperor Daijō).

Sento Imperial Palace was completed in 1630 for Emperor Go-Mizunoo's retirement, along with the corresponding Ōmiya Palace for the Empress Dowager Nyoin. Both palaces were repeatedly destroyed by fire and reconstructed until a blaze in 1854, after which the Sento palace was never rebuilt. (Ōmiya Palace was, however, reconstructed in 1867 and is still used by the emperor whenever he visits Kyoto). Today only two Sento structures, the Seika-tei and Yushin-tei teahouses, remain. The excellent gardens, laid out in 1630 by renowned artist Kobori Masakazu (Kobori Enshu), are now its main attractions.

Sento palace grounds are located within the southeast corner of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and entered via a stately wooden gate within its surrounding earthen wall. A carriage house with graceful triple gables sits just within, but still outside the garden's unadorned inner wall, whose gate leads directly to a fine view opening westward across the garden pond.
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元禄7年7月7日
On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in 1694 Basho visited him for a haikai meeting.

七夕や秋を定むる夜のはじめ　
Tanabata ya aki o sadamuru yo no hajime

star festival night -
now autumn has really come
as the night begins
Tr. Gabi Greve

Festival des Étoiles
L’automne s’est installé
la première des nuits
Tr. ?
source : www.japon-a-paris.fr

In another draft, the hokku was

七夕や秋を定むるはじめの夜
tanabata ya aki o sdamuru hajime no yo

star festival night -
now the first night of autumn
has really come
Tr. Gabi Greve

While it is still quite hot during the day, by nighttime, when the stars come out, there is a feeling of autumnal coolness.

source :　風太郎のページ

. WKD : Star Festival (Tanabata 七夕) .

MORE - Hokku about Tanabata
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .

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- - - - - Hokku by Yado

椶櫚の葉の霰に狂ふあらし哉　（『猿蓑』）

じねんごの藪ふく風ぞあつかりし　（『猿蓑』）

大比叡やはこぶ野菜の露しげし　（『猿蓑』）

燕や田をおりかへす馬のあと　（『續猿蓑』）

背たらおふ物見せばや花の春　（『續猿蓑』）

澤瀉や道付かゆる雨のあと　（『續猿蓑』）

花すゝきとらへぢからや村すヾめ　（『炭俵』）

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Yamaguchi Sodo

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From Hakushu 白州 in the Koshu province甲州, now Yamanashi prefecture.
His father was Yamaguchi Ichi-emon 山口市右衛門, who had a sake brewing business in the town of Kofu 甲府魚町.

Even now the distillery of Suntory サントリー白州ディストラリー is nearby
source : www.suntory.co.jp

Sodo was not interested in the family business, even as the eldest son, so he left business to his younger brother and went to Edo. He studied Chinese classics (kangaku 漢学) with Hayashi Shunsai 林春斎.
He was about 2 years older than Matsuo Basho, but they soon became very close friends.

They published some haikai collections together:
江戸両吟集 in 1676 and 江戸三吟 in 1678.

His haikai teacher was
. Kitamura Kigin 北村季吟 (1625 - 1705).

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Sodoo Ki 素堂忌 Sodo Memorial Day
kigo for late autumn

. WKD : Memorial Days of Famous People .

素堂忌に深川遠き祭かな
Sodoo ki ni Fukagawa tooki matsuri kana

on Sodo Memorial day
in far-away Fukagawa
there is a festival . . .

Masuda Ryuu-U 増田龍雨 Masuda Ryu-U

. WKD : Fukagawa 深川 and Haiku .

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Between 1692 (Genroku 4) and 1699 (Genroku 7),
Tansetsu Kano drew the pictures, on that the three of Kikaku 其角, Basho　芭蕉 and Yamaguchi Sodo 山口素堂 wrote a caption each other, at the request of Shukuzan Hisamatsu 久松粛山 who belonged to the domain of Matsuyama.

Sodo wrote the hokku about the drum:

青海や太鼓ゆるみて春の声
aoumi ya daiko yurumite haru no koe

I'm seeing the blue sea
The sound of drum has very softened
And Spring is in the air
Tr. from Ehime

. Three Venerable Treasures, sanson 三尊 of the Haiku World .

and Kobayashi Issa wrote about the three treasure-poets

正風の三尊見たり梅の宿
shoofuu no san-zon mitari ume no yado

I view three masters
of the original style ...
plum blossom inn

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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

. WKD : First Things, New Things .

from the Arano あら野 collection

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Written in the second lunar month of 1676 延宝4年２月
for the hokku collection 江戸両吟集.

- - - - Matsuo Basho wrote:

この梅に牛も初音と鳴きつべし
kono ume ni ushi mo hatsune to nakitsu beshi

to this plum tree
even the ox might want to shout
his first moo . ..

the first call of an uguisu sounds "hoo hoke kyoo" to the Japanese ear.
Here Basho makes fun with the sound of "moo momo moo " of an oxen.
This was part of the Danrin hokku school of humorous poetry.

. WKD : uguisu no hatsune 鶯の初音 first call of the nightingale .

This hokku was wirtten at the shrine Yushima Tenmangu 湯島天満宮 in memoriam of Sugawara no Michizane.
The statue of an ox is in front of the shrine.

Michizane's funeral procession was a melancholy occasion, attended only by his faithful follower Yasuyuki Umasake and a few neighbors. The coffin was carried on a cow carriage led by Yasuyuki, according to the legend the ox suddenly came to a halt and refused to budge despite threats and entreaties.
The burial therefore took place on the spot, and this became the site of the Tenmangu's main shrine visited today by so many admirers.

. Sugawara Michizane　菅原道真 .

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Written in December of 1691 元禄4年師走.
Basho stayed for a haikai meeting at the home of Yamaguchi Sodo.

- - - - Matsuo Basho wrote:

魚鳥の心は知らず年忘れ　
uo tori no kokoro wa shirazu toshi wasure

how fish and birds
feel at heart, I do not know -
the year-end party
Tr. Ueda

This hokku refers to a poem of the Hoojooki 方丈記 Hojoki from the Kamakura period
by Kamo no Chōmei 鴨長明 Kamo no Chomei, My Account of My Hut.

. WKD : End of the Year .

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Sodo wrote:

年の一夜王子の狐見にゆかん
toshi no hitoya ooji no kitsune mi ni yukan

last night of the year -
let's go to Oji to see
the foxes

. Ooji no kitsunebi 王子の狐火 "fox fire" at Oji Inari Shrine .

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元禄6年10月9日 - 1693, October 9

This is just one month after the famous Chrysanthemum Festival.
Basho and his disciples had a late celebration at the home of Yamaguchi Sodo. They saw the sole of a straw sandal with a broken thong.
They seemed to enjoy the contrast of the elegance of the Chrysanthemum festival with the lost sandal in the garden.

- - - - Matsuo Basho wrote:

菊の香や庭に切れたる履の底
kiku no ka ya niwa ni kiretaru kutsu no soko

chrysanthemum fragrance—
in the garden, the sole
of a worn-out sandal
Tr. Addiss

Basho also wrote

いざよひのいずれか今朝に残る菊
. izayoi no izure ka kesa ni nokoru kiku .

. Chrysanthemum Haiku .

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- - - - - Hokku by Sodo

池に鵞なし假名書習ふ柳陰　（『あら野』）

綿の花たまたま蘭に似たるかな　（『あら野』）

名もしらぬ小草花咲野菊哉　（『あら野』）

唐土に富士あらばけふの月もみよ　（『あら野』）

麥をわすれ華におぼれぬ鴈ならし　（『あら野』）

髭宗祇池に蓮ある心かな　（『炭俵』）

三か月の隠にてすヾむ哀かな　（『炭俵』）

うるしせぬ琴や作らぬ菊の友　（『續炭俵』）

行ずして見五湖いりがきの音をきく　（『去来抄』）

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. . . . . an epilogue to a haibun by his (Basho's) friend Yamaguchi Sodô :

EPILOGUE TO “EXPOSITION ON THE BAGWORM”
One day, while dwelling in the desolation of my cottage, I wrote a verse. Touched by the verse, my friend Sodô inscribed a poem and a prose work to it. His lines are beautiful like brocade, and his words are gems. Reading his inscription, I see the artistry of "Encountering Sorrow."
It has the novelty of Su Shi and the ingenuity of Huang Tingjian. He mentions the filial piety of Shun and Zeng Shen at the beginning to let us learn from their virtue. He praises the incapability of the bagworm to remind us of the spirit of the Zhuangzi. He treasures tiny creatures like bagworms to teach us contentment with one’s lot. He also draws upon the old stories of Lü Fang and Ziling to reveal the meaning of reclusion.

At the end, he jokes about the jade worm, exhorting people not to indulge in love. Who else can know the heart of the bagworm so well as this old gentleman Sodô?! What he wrote can be described precisely by
“In quiet contemplation, one finds all things have their own reasons for existence.”

Indeed, in Sodô I see the meaning of this famous poem.
Since ancient times, most people who deal with the writing brush pursue embellishments at the cost of content, or take content seriously but ignore fûryû. When reading Sodô’s prose poem, one is attracted not only by its embellishment but, more significantly, by its essence.

There is a gentleman named Chôko in this area. Upon learning of Sodô’s prose, he made a painting based on it. His painting is truly deep in feeling while light in color. Looking at the painting attentively, I feel as if the bagworm is moving and the yellow leaves are falling. Listening carefully, I feel I have heard the the autumn wind blowing gently and felt its coldness. I am very fortunate to have leisure in this hut of idleness and to have the profound friendship of the two gentlemen, like a bagworm that is bestowed glorifying honor.

source : Basho-and-the-Dao - Peipei-Qiu

蓑虫の音を聞きに来よ草の庵
. minomushi no ne o kiki ni koyo kusa no io .

come to listen
to the sound of the bagworms!
my grass hut
Tr. Gabi Greve

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- - -- - comment by Larry Bole;

Yoel Hoffmann identifies the following haiku as Sodo's 'death poem':

ware o tsurete waga kage kaeru tsukimi kana

Full autumn moon:
my shadow takes me with him
and returns.
--Sodo, trans. Hoffmann

Leading me along,
my shadow goes back home
from looking at the moon.
--trans. Henderson

Hoffmann states that
"Sodo died on the day of the full autumn moon," which was "the fifteenth day of the eighth month, 1716, at the age of seventy-five"

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菊の香や奈良には古き仏たち
kiku no ka ya Nara ni wa furuki hotoketachi

fragrance of chrysanthemums -
in Nara there are so many
old Buddha statues

. Basho in Nara 奈良 .

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尊さに皆おしあひぬ御遷宮
tootosa ni mina oshi-ainu gosenguu

For holiness,
Everyone has pushed others in the crowd.
The Shrine Removal !
Tr. Oseko

. Basho in Ise .

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行く春を近江の人と惜しみける
yuku haru o Oomi no hito to oshimikeru

spring is departing-
with the people (friends) of Omi
I lament its passing　

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旅に病んで夢は枯野をかけ廻る
tabi ni yande yume wa kareno o kakemeguru

falling ill while travelling -
in my dreams I am wandering
over withered fields

. Basho the Traveler .

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蛸壺やはかなき夢を夏の月
takotsubo ya hakanaki yume o natsu no tsuki

an octopus pot -
inside, a short-lived dream
under the summer moon
Tr. Makoto Ueda

. Basho remembering Dan no Ura .

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枯朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮
kara eda ni karasu no tomari keri aki no kure

a crow is perched
on a barren branch -
this autumn evening

. WKD : autumn dusk .

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髪生えて容顔青し五月雨　
kami haete yoogan aoshi satsuki ame

my hair has grown
my face is pale -
samidare rain

Basho feels miserable during the rainy season.

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We had to cut down a beautiful cherry tree and Naokimi got the biggest parts.
This is the first, December 17, 2021.

Daruma Museum
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September 2018

. 薬師如来 Yakushi Nyorai Bhaisajyaguru .
the Buddha of Medicine and Healing

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. Enku, the Master Carver 円空 (Enkuu) .
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Yoshioka Motome

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- Yoshioka Motome II 吉岡求馬(2代) -
(1658 - ?)

He was a Kabuki actor from Osaka, Kamigata. In 1696 he performed at the theater 早雲座 Soun-Za in Kyoto as a young star in the play 福寿丸 Fukuju-Maru.
In 1706 he came to Edo to the Nakamura Theater 中村座. Later he spent 5 years at the theater Hotei-ya 都の布袋屋 in Kyoto.
His later activities are not well known.

His name was 吉岡求女 Yoshioka Motome.

Yoshioka Motome I the First
was a Kabuki actor in the Edo period, but not much is known about him.

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- - - - - Kabuki in Edo

Fujimura Handayu
Fall 1706: Handayû and Yoshioka Motome II go to Edo.

Tsutsui Kichijuro
11th lunar month of 1706: Kichijûrô plays at the Nakamuraza the role of Ayame-no-Mae in the kaomise drama "Uji Genji Yumihari-zuki", which welcomes in Edo the Kamigata actors Fujimura Handayû II and
Yoshioka Motome II.

Murayama Heiemon
11th lunar month of 1706: Heiemon moves to the Nakamuraza and plays the role of Takiguchi in the kaomise drama "Uji Genji Yumihari-zuki", which welcomes in Edo the Kamigata actors Fujimura Handayû II and Yoshioka Motome II.
source : www.kabuki21.com

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The actors Yoshioka Motome and Uemura Kichisaburô holding hand puppets
source :　www.artnet.fr
by Kiyonobu Torii, about 1700-1710

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. WKD : Kabuki Theater ... 歌舞伎 .

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花あやめ一夜に枯れし求馬哉
hana ayame ichiya ni kareshi Motome kana

this Ayame iris
has withered over night
like actor Motome . . .

「俗士にさそはれて、五月四日、吉岡求馬を見る。
五日はや死す。よつて追善」

Written on the 5th day of the 5th month in 1688, in Osaka. Basho age 45.

Basho saw a performance with this young actor on the 4th day of the 5th lunar month.
Probably at Yamatoya Jinbei za 大和屋甚兵衛座
But by next morning, the actor had died. It is not quite clear what happened.
Basho was quite perplexed by this news and wrote this requiem for him.

The hokku has the cut marker KANA at the end of line 3.

. WKD : ayame あやめ Ayame iris .
A favorite flower for the Boy's Festival of the 5/5 day.

from the poem collection 蕉翁句集.

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Yamatoya Jinbei I 大和屋甚兵衛 (初代) First Generation
(? - 1704)
Kabuki Actor and Theater Group Leader in Kamigata (Osaka and Kyoto).

Yamatoya Jinbei II 大和屋甚兵衛 (2代)
Second son of I. Acted first on the Soun-Za 早雲座 in Kyoto in 1701.
His name was 大和屋藤吉.

Yamatoya Jinbei III 大和屋甚兵衛 (3代)
He is famous for playing female roles at the Soun-Za. In 1747 he also performed other roles.

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. Cultural Keywords used by Basho .

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17/05/2012

Hanaya Nizaemon

source :　tategaki.jp/data

大坂南御堂前花屋仁左衛門

Basho moved to his home on the 5th day of the 10th lunar month.
Many of his disciples hurried to meet him there when they got the messge of his severe illness and approaching death (Basho kitoku 芭蕉危篤) , but very few from Iga Ueno made it, because Basho had asked not to inform them of his severe condition.
He did not want to make his family sad.

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Learning of Basho's serious illness, Kyorai had immediately set out by ship from Fushimi and, having rapped on Hanaya Nizaemon's door in the dead of the night, watched over his master day in and day out. Moreover, by prevailing upon Shido to arrange for an assistant, sending someone to Sumiyoshi Shrine to pray for their ailing master, and consulting with Hanaya for the purchase of various personal effects, he had, more than anyone, endeavored zealously and relentlessly to provide whatever was required.
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Four or five days before, the master had said:
"I had long thought that I would die stretched out on the grass, with earth for my headrest. I could not be happier that to see the hope for a peaceful end here fulfilled on this splendid bed."
This he had oft repeated as an expression of his gratitude, though wether he was now lying on a withered moor or in the rear annex of Hanaya Nizaemon's residence was of no significant difference.

In fact, up until three or four days before, the very person now moistening the lips of the dying man had worried that his master had not yet composed his last verse; just the day before he had contemplated how he might compile a posthumous book of his hokku.

MORE - by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
source : books.google.co.jp

source :　kay31527
Basho's last dream, wandering over the withered fields

旅に病んで夢は枯野をかけ廻る
. tabi ni yande yume wa kareno o kakemeguru .
- - - his last hokku

falling ill while travelling -
in my dreams I am wandering
over withered fields

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