Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉, 1644 – 28 November 1694) was a major Japanese poet, primarily known for his achievements in the haikai no renga and haiku (as it would become known later) forms, and his poetic diaries.
Born: 1644
Died: November 28th, 1694
Categories: Japanese poets, 17th century deaths
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
[E]very day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
It rains during the morning. No visitors today. I feel lonely and amuse myself by writing at random. These are the words: Who mourns makes grief his master. Who drinks makes pleasure his master.
My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.
さびは句の色なり。閑寂なる句をいふにあらず。たとへば、老人の甲冑をたいし戦場に働き、錦繍をかざり御宴に侍りても、老の姿有るがごとし。
見るところ花にあらずと云ふことなし、 思ふところ月にあらずと云ふことなし。
古人の跡を求めず、 古人の求めたるの所を求めよ。
行く春や 鳥啼き魚の 目は泪
夏草や 兵どもが 夢の跡
静けさや 岩に滲み入る 蝉の声
朝顔に 我は飯食ふ 男かな
京にても 京なつかしや 時鳥
古池や 蛙飛び込む 水の音
旅に病で 夢は枯野を かけ廻る