Matsuo+Basho

= Matsuo Basho﻿ = By: Madeleine, Andrew, and Ioan

**__Facts About Matsuo Basho__**

 * ===== Born in 1644 in Ueno in Iga province =====
 * When he was young, he was a samurai
 * Took up Zen meditation when young
 * Only wrote haikus
 * ===== Basho was his pen-name for Munefusa =====
 * ===== Basho was his name because the name of the room he wrote his haikus in was called a basho-an, a hut made out of plantain leaves =====
 * ===== Began composing in 1667 in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) =====
 * ===== Wrote renga poems and haibun poems =====
 * ===== Used jokes and plays-on-words because that was the poetry style =====
 * Was homeless for part of his life (once because of a house fire)
 * ===== ﻿He supposedly reached a sense of heightened awareness of nature and interpreted it into his hiaku =====
 * ===== He was the first person to interpret Zen Buddhism into his haiku =====
 * ===== Died November 28th, 1694 A.D. =====
 * Died of stomach illness in Osaka.

Banana Tree Haiku
A banana plant in the autumn gale - I listen to the dripping of rain Into a basin at night.

As They Begin to Rise Again
As they begin to rise again Chrysanthemums faintly smell, After the flooding rain

A Ball of Snow
A Ball of Snow You make the fire and I’ll show you something wonderful: a big ball of snow!

Basho's Death Poem
Sick on my journey, only my dreams will wander these desolate moors

A Wild Sea
A wild sea- In the distance over Sado The Milky Way

But For a Woodpecker
But for a woodpecker tapping at a post, no sound at all in the house

(Translation of But For a Woodpecker)

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