ZZJourneys: Matsuo Basho’s influence on haiku
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Join us for Alice Wanderer's presentation Journeys: Matsuo Basho’s influence on the development of haiku.Bashō (born 1644, Ueno, Iga province, Japan—died Nov. 28, 1694, Ōsaka) was the supreme Japanese haiku poet, who greatly enriched the 17-syllable haiku form and made it an accepted medium of artistic expression.
Interested in haiku from an early age, Bashō at first put his literary interests aside and entered the service of a local feudal lord. After his lord’s death in 1666, however, Bashō abandoned his samurai (warrior) status to devote himself to poetry. Moving to the capital city of Edo (now Tokyo), he gradually acquired a reputation as a poet and critic. In 1679 he wrote his first verse in the “new style” for which he came to be known:
On a withered branch
A crow has alighted:
Nightfall in autumn.
Alice Wanderer began writing haiku when living in Japan in the 1990s. She is a member of Melbourne’s Fringe Myrtles haiku group.
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Melbourne Athenaeum Library
L1, 188 Collins St, Melbourne Victoria 3000
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