Buson - On these southern roads

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On these southern roads

By Buson(1716 - 1784)

On these southern roads,on shrine or thatched roof, all the same,swallows everywhere

/ Photo by tanakawho /

 

 

 

 

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Hi Alan -I thought today called for a haiku...Taniguchi Buson (also Yosa Buson) was known in his day primarily as an excellent painter, but today he is often grouped with Basho and Issa as among the finest writers of haiku poetry.He was born outside of Osaka, Japan, but lost both parents while still young. He moved to Edo (Tokyo) to study painting and haiku. He later settled in Kyoto, making a name for himself as a painter.Buson's haiku are more overtly crafted than Basho, showing the precision of a painter's eye.==A surface reading of this haiku paints for us a picture of birds on rooftops. But don't rush past this image and think that's all Buson is presenting to us. Take a moment to reread it and let the image he has sketched for us fill out in your mind, then consider deeper layers of meaning that might be implied.on shrine or thatched

roof, all the sameA thatched roof would be on a simple house. Buson seems to be suggesting that there is no difference between the sacred ground of a temple or the houses of the secular world.swallows everywhereSwallows, which I take to embody a sort of natural living presence, gather everywhere, equally on temple roofs and on thatch roofs.Read this way, Buson could be suggesting a Zen vision of unity: enlightenment is found equally everywhere, at the altar as well as the cook pot.Have a beautiful day!Ivan

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