Basho's thoughts on...
Matsuo Basho 1644~1694
The only substantial
collection in English
of Basho's renku, tanka,
letters and spoken word
along with his haiku, travel
journals, and essays.
The only poet in old-time
literature who paid attention with praise
to ordinary women, children, and teenagers
in hundreds of poems
Hundreds upon hundreds of Basho works
(mostly renku)about women, children,
teenagers, friendship, compassion, love.
These are resources we can use to better
understand ourselves and humanity.
Interesting and heartfelt
(not scholarly and boring)
for anyone concerned with
humanity.
“An astonishing range of
social subject matter and
compassionate intuition”
"The primordial power
of the feminine emanating
from Basho's poetry"
Hopeful, life-affirming
messages from one of
the greatest minds ever.
Through his letters,
we travel through his mind
and discover Basho's
gentleness and humanity.
I plead for your help in
finding a person or group
to take over my 3000 pages of Basho material,
to edit and improve the material, to receive 100%
of royalties, to spread Basho’s wisdom worldwide
and preserve for future generations.
Quotations from Basho Prose
The days and months are
guests passing through eternity.
The years that go by
also are travelers.
The mountains in silence
nurture the spirit;
the water with movement
calms the emotions.
All the more joyful,
all the more caring
Seek not the traces
of the ancients;
seek rather the
places they sought.
basho4humanity
@gmail.com
Plea for Affiliation
Plea For Affiliation
I pray for your help
in finding someone
- individual, university,
or foundation -
to take over my
3000 pages of material,
to cooperate with me
to edit the material,
to receive all royalties
from sales, to spread
Basho’s wisdom worldwide,
and preserve for
future generations.
basho4humanity
@gmail.com
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Woman Central
Woman Central -- Introduction
"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture, and transform.” Diane Mariechild
Woman Central:Basho Honors Women and Girls
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Power of Women
"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1795)
&n ...
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Mother as Icon
Women created new life out of their bodies and sustained it by nursing and maternal care,
connected to other women, female kin or neighbors, sustained by female prayer and ritual.
&n ...
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Woman's Love:
"The way of aloha (love) is really simple You give and you give and you give from here (the heart), until you have nothing else to give." Rell Sunn, Hawaiian woman surfing ...
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Basho's Goddesses
“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment"-- Sue Monk Kidd -- and Basho woul ...
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Music, Song, and Dance :
"I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us." Beyonce. Basho reminds us of this ...
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Pregnancy to Birth
There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in Creation
& ...
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Breastfeeding with Basho
"That divine nourishment - the source from which we all draw, like a mother's breast, ever full and ever flowing." Sarah Buckley, Physican and natural birth advocate
Basho wro ...
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Marriage For Women
(among the Minangkabu of Indonesia) Since husbands go to live with their wives, it is men who experience the seperation and loss that women face at marriage in so amny other societies. Sta ...
L-08
Long Black Hair
"I love my hair because it’s a reflection of my soul - Tracee Ellis Ross
Fascination with women’s hair enriches Japanese literature from ancient until mo ...
L-09
Her Face
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face." - Mary Ann Evans ("George Eliot")
That my face / resembles my mother's / fascinates - Basho
Her Face
&nb ...
L-10
Attraction
"I feel that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity
and sensuality is a woman that is empowered." Shakira
The notion that B ...
L-11
Miss Cellany
Feminism isn't about making woman stronger. Women are already strong.
It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength.
&nbs ...
L-13
A Year of Women
“Spring passes and one remembers innocence. Summer passes and one remembers exuberance. Autumn passes, one remembers reverence. Winter passes, one remembers perseverance.” Yoko ...
L-14
Erotic Flowers
Now through a field of riotous maiden flowers
I go untouched by any drop of dew
Suppose you too have a nap among the flowers
then we may see how you resist their hues.
...
L-15
Women in Buddhism
“I feel that chanting for thirty-five years has opened a door inside me, and that even if I never chanted again,that door would still be there. I feel at peace with myself.” ...
L-16
Oppression of Women
“Criticism of women’s intelligence, autonomy, and moral worthwas essential to the total
subordination of women that society demanded.” Historian Tokuza Akiko xx ...
L-17
Death and Near Death
"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do." Angelina Jolie. Basho also loved life and explored death; here are 20 haiku and renku. ...
L-18
Brothel Slavery
Courtesans were ranked and graded from the top class who excelled in their appearance and artistic accomplishments, to women sold cheaply for ten minutes at a time, called "slice-of-time" whores.
&nbs ...
L-19
Unfolding Women
For me, child, life has always been an endless unfolding:night unfolding into day, girls unfolding into women,women unfolding babies from themselves.Why, life itself unfolds to death, a ...
L-20
Women in Basho Prose
So far in Women in Basho we have explored 184 renku and 42 haiku of Basho’s poetic attention to women. In this article we continue exploring images of women flow through his essays and ...
L-21
Women in Basho Letters
From a letter to his brother, between 1685 and 1688
… one, I am most grateful to older sister’s kindness,and two, cannot forget our mother’s heart of“Great Compassion f ...
L-22
20 Visions of Women
"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture, and transform.”
Diane Mariechild
The earliest and most numerous, diverse, and insightful fem ...
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Basho's thoughts on...
Matsuo Basho 1644~1694
The only substantial
collection in English
of Basho's renku, tanka,
letters and spoken word
along with his haiku, travel
journals, and essays.
The only poet in old-time
literature who paid attention with praise
to ordinary women, children, and teenagers
in hundreds of poems
Hundreds upon hundreds of Basho works
(mostly renku)about women, children,
teenagers, friendship, compassion, love.
These are resources we can use to better
understand ourselves and humanity.
Interesting and heartfelt
(not scholarly and boring)
for anyone concerned with
humanity.
“An astonishing range of
social subject matter and
compassionate intuition”
"The primordial power
of the feminine emanating
from Basho's poetry"
Hopeful, life-affirming
messages from one of
the greatest minds ever.
Through his letters,
we travel through his mind
and discover Basho's
gentleness and humanity.
I plead for your help in
finding a person or group
to take over my 3000 pages of Basho material,
to edit and improve the material, to receive 100%
of royalties, to spread Basho’s wisdom worldwide
and preserve for future generations.
Quotations from Basho Prose
The days and months are
guests passing through eternity.
The years that go by
also are travelers.
The mountains in silence
nurture the spirit;
the water with movement
calms the emotions.
All the more joyful,
all the more caring
Seek not the traces
of the ancients;
seek rather the
places they sought.
basho4humanity
@gmail.com
Plea for Affiliation
Plea For Affiliation
I pray for your help
in finding someone
- individual, university,
or foundation -
to take over my
3000 pages of material,
to cooperate with me
to edit the material,
to receive all royalties
from sales, to spread
Basho’s wisdom worldwide,
and preserve for
future generations.
basho4humanity
@gmail.com
