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Matsuo Basho

( Great Japanese poet)

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Biography Matsuo Basho
Matsuo Basho (real name - Munefusa, 1644-1694) - the great Japanese poet, who played a major role in the formation of the poetic genre haikai. Basho was born in Iga province in the central part of Honshu, in a poor samurai family, a child received a good education. In 1672,. left their homes and moved to Edo (modern Tokyo), where he joined one of the leading schools of poetry of the time - Danrin. In an effort to go beyond the principles of this school, whose adherents considered somewhat simplistic poetry haikai, appealed to Chinese literature and philosophy. Was close to the Zen, which has had a significant influence on his work. More credibility in the lifetime and had many students. For a long time Basho lived in the suburbs of Edo - Furukawa, in a hut, had given him the Sampo, one of his students. Next to this hut was planted banana (bass), so the hut was called Banana (bass-en), hence the nickname of a poet.

Bass have been wandering in Japan, talked with farmers, with the fishermen, from tea pickers. After 1682, when his hut was burned, his whole life was wandering. Poetry was not a game for the Base, not fun, not earnings, but a vocation and destiny. He said that poetry elevates and ennobles man. By the end of his life he had many students throughout Japan.

Lyrics - this is the only art form that people can totally "give" itself, turning lyrical composition or separate lines in the part of his consciousness. Other works of art live in the hearts of both experiences, as the memory of the seen, heard, and that's lyrical poems themselves grow into heart, responding to us at certain moments of life. This thought came to many of the sages.

In the tradition of haiku to portray human life in a merger with nature. Poets compels people to seek hidden beauty in a simple, unobtrusive, everyday. According to Buddhist teachings, the truth suddenly grasped, and this apprehension may be associated with any phenomenon of being. This tercet - is "wisteria flowers.


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