Winter Days

It was in Winter Days that Basho enunciated his revolutionary style of haiku composition, a manner so different from the preceding haiku that the word shofu (haiku in the Basho manner) was coined to describe it. . . . more

Winter Days (冬の日 Fuyu no Hi?) is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. - Wikipedia

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Shofu

"Towards the end of his life, Basho reached a maturity in his haiku style. His mature style, or shofu, is characterized by: karumi, or lightness, an expression of nonattachment born of the acceptance of life on life’s terms; sabi, a poignant sense of life’s brevity and beauty coupled with nostalgia; and wabi, the elegance of austere simplicity and solitude." - CarrieAnn Thunell

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On a journey,

Resting beneath the cherry blossoms,

I feel myself to be in a Noh play.

- Matsuo Basho (more)

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List oF Basho works. . . .

  • Kai Ōi (The Seashell Game) (1672)

  • Minashiguri (A Shriveled Chestnut) (1683)

  • Nozarashi Kikō (Record of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton) (1684)

  • Fuyu no Hi (Winter Days) (1684)

  • Haru no Hi (Spring Days) (1686)

  • Kashima Kikō (A Visit to Kashima Shrine) (1687)

  • Oi no Kobumi, or Utatsu Kikō (Record of a Travel-Worn Satchel) (1688)

  • Sarashina Kikō (A Visit to Sarashina Village) (1688)

  • Arano (Wasteland) (1689)

  • Hisago (The Gourd) (1690)

  • Sarumino (The Monkey's Raincoat) (1691)

  • Saga Nikki (Saga Diary) (1691)

  • Bashō no Utsusu Kotoba (On Transplanting the Banana Tree) (1691)

  • Heikan no Setsu (On Seclusion) (1692)

  • Sumidawara (A Sack of Charcoal) (1694)

  • Betsuzashiki (The Detached Room) (1694)

  • Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Interior) (1694)

  • Zoku Sarumino (The Monkey's Raincoat, Continued) (1698)

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