Examples of using Bashō in English and their translations into Serbian
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One is that it was not Bashō but James W.
Bashō composed this on his way from Kanazawa to Komatsu.
Despite his success, Bashō grew dissatisfied and lonely.
Bashō and Sora headed north to Hiraizumi, which they reached on June 29.
Karumi occupies a very important position in the development of what is known as Shofu,or the style of the Bashō School.
Bashō met many friends and grew to enjoy the changing scenery and the seasons.
None of the senses given to the word amashi in Kojien, for example,seem to apply to what Bashō was supposed to be saying.
But Bashō was not to be restricted to the serious and genteel style adhered to by the conservatives.
When Nishiyama Sōin, founder and leader of the Danrin school of haikai,came to Edo from Osaka in 1675, Bashō was among the poets invited to compose with him.
During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form;
His disciples built him a rustic hut andplanted a Japanese banana tree(芭蕉, bashō) in the yard, giving Bashō a new haigō and his first permanent home.
When young, Bashō was under the direct influence of this type of haikai, from which he subsequently disassociated himself.
And as we know, this degenerated into excessive jest andfacetious word-play until at last Bashō took over the leadership to bring haikai back on the track of traditional waka values.
Bashō returned to Edo in the summer of 1685, taking time along the way to write more hokku and comment on his own life.
Nozarashi-Kiko(The Journal of a Weather-beaten Skeleton) is perhaps the most serious of all the journals he wrote and Sarumino(The Monkey's Cloak)is regarded as the apex of the Bashō School.
It was only natural that Bashō should have become more and more serious in his rendering of poetry, as well as his teaching.
In order to see how much clearer the image of karumi has so far become to us, let me try here to say in one of the 20th century Western languages,English, what Bashō tried to teach by karumi.
I am not suggesting that Bashō worked every minute of the day with this task clearly in mind but the result of his passion is something we know only too well.
He appreciated the plant very much, butwas not happy to see Fukagawa's native miscanthus grass growing alongside it: ばしょう植ゑてまづ憎む荻の二葉哉 bashō uete/ mazu nikumu ogi no/ futaba kana by my new banana plant/ the first sign of something I loathe-/ a miscanthus bud!
Bashō traveled alone, off the beaten path, that is, on the Edo Five Routes, which in medieval Japan were regarded as immensely dangerous;
Although we must refrain from speculating, as some do, that it was the point of departure for Bashō's quest for karumi,it is significant that Bashō who was meticulous about terminology should have actually used the word.
Although Bashō is justifiably famous in the West for his hokku, he himself believed his best work lay in leading and participating in renku.
Immediately after this sentence,Toho also records the fact that, jokingly, Bashō had often compared his haikai to tawara, a straw rice-bag, saying he had not yet even opened it, which is to say that there was a long way to go before he could come to any attainment in his haikai.↩.
Bashō had studied painting in the style of the Kano School before he met Kyoriku, a talented artist as well as a poet, who now gave lessons to Bashō. .
From these it is quite clear that in his last days, Bashō was proceeding in earnest with forming a new poetical ideal which he called karumi, or“lightness” and that he was not at all complacent about the progress he was making.
Bashō was very stringent about this and it may be noted that Natsume Soseki's last ideal of sokuten-kyoshi has a ring curiously resembling Bashō's view.
The second assumption is that the urgency and enthusiasm with which Bashō was trying to develop karumi in his last years can be explained partly by the fact that some of his important disciples were falling away or even challenging the introduction of his new style and that he therefore had to try even harder to establish it.
Bashō was introduced to poetry at a young age, and after integrating himself into the intellectual scene of Edo he quickly became well-known throughout Japan.
However, it has to be said that Bashō is a poet with whose unparalleled significance it is easier to agree than it is to understand those values which make him so significant.
When Bashō returned to Edo he happily resumed his job as a teacher of poetry at his Bashō Hut, although privately he was already making plans for another journey.