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Oku no hosomichi

September 11th 2007 07:45
Just wanted to give you all another taste of the Narrow Road to the Interior

OKU NO HOSOMICHI

I mentioned a translation of this work in a recent post and since than I've found a wonderful online website devoted to this book.

www.oregon.edu/~kohl/basho

If I got the URL wrong also check out Wikipedia 's page on Oku no hosomichi!

This poem comes from that work

Natsu kusa ya

Tsuwamono domo

Yume no ato


Summer grasses ! / the strong ones or the hero warriors / dream(s) traces of


Basho was viewing the ruins of Hiraizumi a major city on the north until the wars of the 11th and 12th century Japan. The battle fields and other sites associated with famous warrior heroes was in his time overgrown with grass and weeds or neglected in other ways.

Its a melacholy poem especially when you consider that Basho came from a samurai family and that his grandparents or great grandparents would have told him stories of those earlier conflicts and the more recent battles of the Tokugawa clan's rise to the Shogunate.

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Comment by katyzzz

September 11th 2007 10:59
Julie, I think you have great intellect. I am highly intelligent and a great thinker but I am a touch short on intellect.

It is really interesting to know about these things even if not in depth, that's me.

katyzzz

Comment by Julie Vaux

September 13th 2007 08:24
I doubt I have a great intellect?! I'm not one of those people who can read speak and write in twenty languages and I'm not brilliant at maths or musically gifted.

I do read a lot and wanted to share some of my notes and observations with others!

Hence the blog title SCHOLIA !!!

Be careful with the praise!

You dont want to attract any lurking jealous trolls!


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