Matsuo Basho
Matsuo Basho
Matsuo Bashō, born 松尾 金作, then Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa, was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku. Matsuo Bashō's poetry is internationally renowned; and, in Japan, many of his poems are reproduced on monuments and traditional sites. Although Bashō is justifiably famous in the West for his...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionPoet
CountryJapan
A flute with no holes is not a flute.
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
Year's end still in straw hat and sandals
The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
For a lovely bowl Let us arrange these flowers... For there is no rice