Matsuo Basho
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2010
- The haiku poetry of Japanese poet Matsuo Basho. This evocative montage depicts Basho's epic walking journey through the interior of Japan depicted in his haunting haikus that live on till today. Images of Japanese prints and Baho's haiku text are accompanied with Koto music.
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Enjoyed your analysis of this classic haiku poem. Herewith is my haiku tribute to Bashō,s frog with commentary by the late Jane Reichold who also considered my poem among her top 10 haiku of all time. I was humbled and honored.
Bashō,s frog
four hundred years
of ripples
Commentary:
“At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA
forum.
The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so
numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this
method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing
about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the
sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water".
As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain”.
All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida
-Al
Are there any other haiku videos on youtube like this? Wow. This calmed my racing mind at 6 am like nothing I've ever seen or tried
I agree. This one got a special delicate thing to it that appeals to the mind set a lot. It´s too rare to find, but if you look around the tube, you´ll find some other nice pieces.
This one is out there, giving a related feeling, a different moment of enter the calm mindset. ua-cam.com/video/EIDHHPWJiWY/v-deo.html
"Basho has tremendous respect in my heart. He is not only a mystic, a master, he is also a poet, a painter, a sculptor; he is a creative phenomenon. Nobody can compare with him as far as his multidimensional personality is concerned.
He has the fragrance which only a flower can have. That fragrance is manifested in his poetry, in his small statements, in his every gesture. Even in his ordinary talks with people he cannot be other than Basho.
Basho is far more refined, perhaps the most refined Zen master up to now. His refinement is in his cultured, meditative spaciousness. Out of that spaciousness many flowers have showered on the world. It does not matter wherever he is and whatever is going on, Basho is going to make it a Zen state of affairs. That uniqueness will not be found again.
Basho is one of the greatest poets of the world, but he has written only haikus - very symbolic but very miraculous, very simple but very mysterious. They are all to be understood through visualization, because Zen does not believe in words. Visualize and perhaps you may have some understanding.
A meditator, according to Basho, will go on searching deep within himself, but that does not mean that he should lose contact with the outside world. Once in a while he should open his eyes. With all his emptiness he should mirror the outside world. Those reflections are collected in these haikus. They don’t mean anything, they simply depict a picture.
Basho is the greatest haiku poet of Japan, the Master haiku poet. But he was not just a poet. Before becoming a poet he was a mystic; before he starting pouring out with beautiful poetry, he poured deep into his own center. He was a meditator.
It happened when Basho’s master died - Basho is a buddha, a buddha who writes poetry, a buddha who paints beautiful pictures, a very aesthetic buddha. His master died, thousands of people gathered. His master was very famous; more famous because of Basho, because Basho was a famous poet and painter and he was Basho’s master. Thousands of people gathered and they were very much surprised when they saw Basho crying, big tears rolling down his cheeks.
A few close disciples of his master came to Basho and said, “It does not look right. Thousands of people are coming and they are getting confused. They don’t think a buddha should be crying and weeping, and you are the man who has been saying to them again and again: There is no death and the innermost core lives forever. Then why are you weeping? Your master is not dead, he has only moved from the small body to the universal body of God. So why are you weeping?”
Basho wiped his tears and he said, “Listen! This is nobody’s business. I live according to my inner feelings, I cannot pretend. When my innermost core has disappeared into the universal. don’t care whether people think it right or not. If they don’t think that I am enlightened it’s okay, but I cannot pretend. I cannot do something which is not really there. And yes, I have said that the soul is immortal and my master has not died, he has disappeared into the universal. That’s why I am crying, not crying that he is dead but crying that now I will never be able to see his form. Now he has become formless - and his body was beautiful. I will never be able to look again into those deep eyes, I will never be able to hold his hand and touch his feet. I have lost his form - I am crying for his body, for his form; I am not crying for the formless soul. And I am not concerned whether people think me enlightened or unenlightened, that is their business. Who cares?”
I think many of you are missing an essential element in his poetry.
That is the sound of the Japanese words he used.
Beautiful sunds as well as beautiful thoughts!
I love the haikus and overall effect. youtube is a perfect medium for sharing Basho
Great haiku poetry of japanese Matsuo Basho...with Koto music
Upon seeing this
True nostalgia
I feel
For Japan
Thanks for enriching the web's atmospheres. Goku, the best summum of the soul of Japan
Thank you, this has been added to a playlist...
He is enlightment master.
Love & gratitude
Beautiful. A similar video of Kabayashi Issa would be nice...
Splendid! A perfect video! Thank you a lot.
enchanting
I have to disagree with ruzickaw about the poems being "poor stuff" because of the moving around of the same elements. I'm no authority on the subject, but I think the repetition of those elements is done by the writer to induce a meditative affect upon the reader, so that the experience becomes more personal. This repetition becomes more effective under the "simplicity" of the Haiku format, I think. I'm still learning, and obviously years behind on this post, but I enjoyed the video very much. Don't worry, computers will be writing our poems and making our music sooner than you think.Thanks for posting work.
I completely agree!
...yesss... perhaps is the reason we're interested about their culture....
bless you
Very nice.
great
The translations of poems languages with different characters, are always very difficult. Only poets, translators with extensive experience in various languages could translate better, I think ...
Gold is rare
truth is air
life not fair...
Dear Haiku lovers here is another kind to illustrate HAïKUS : ua-cam.com/video/ab9FNDIa3eU/v-deo.html
Omedetō!
Thanks. One syllabe more Will break the wonderful instan
...One time I ask you about haikus i think.... Japan have a deep soul too...
...and so differnt...from us
Name of song????
Daisuki desu.
the images are great but the poems are poor stuff. Even a computer could write them, always moving the same elements "fallen leaves " "birds" in different combinations.
ruzickaw Idiotic comment. Originally these poems are bound to nature as a theme and set to a musical rhythm of the language. The poems are not "poor stuff".
ruzickaw haiku has certain season words that are identified within the literature, they are used sometimes repetitively, like light is commonly used as a metaphor in English poetry for life, purity, etc. Haiku also has a combination of being meditative in a moment but movement always occurs within the poem
Ruzickaw, you need to get an education in poetry...in "patterned language" which is what poetry is.