Basho's thoughts on...

• Woman Central
• Introduction to this site
• The Human Story:
• Praise for Women
• Love and Sex in Basho
• Children and Teens
• Humanity and Friendship
• On Translating Basho
• Basho Himself
• Poetry and Music
• The Physical Body
• Food, Drink, and Fire
• Animals in Basho
• Space and Time
• Letters Year by Year
• Bilingual Basho 日本語も
• 芭蕉について日本語の論文
• Basho Tsukeku 芭蕉付句
• BAMHAY (Basho Amazes Me! How About You?)
• New Articles


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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Top page – Opening

The 20 Categories of Basho4Humanity

Legend:
Words of Basho in bold
Words of other poets not bold

An outline of 20 the categories of Basho4Humanity.  If you wish to go directly to the 300 articles, 
click on https://www.basho4humanity.com/topic-description.php?ID=1525955995

 

Basho’s Works on Humanity

  • 200 Basho haiku about people and human experience 
  • 390 Basho renku or linked verses exploring humanity
  • 3 tanka: few but vital
  • 100 prose passages, many humorous
  • Hundreds of sections from 60 letters                   
  •  45 passages of Basho’s spoken word                                                                              
  •  all all about Us, humanity, people all over the world.

 

 *   Selected for ordinary readers without knowledge of Japanese literature

*    Translated directly, so almost every word in Japanese appears in English

*    Extensive commentary translated from Japanese or written by the compiler                                                  during the past 35 years.


Almost all of Basho's works on humanity  are known only to a few scholars.

We go beyond the scholars, to experience the lively and joyful Basho scholars ignore.

 

These haiku, renku, tanka, haibun, letters, spoken word should be spread

through the humanities and social sciences, for they offer a positive, life-affirming

vision of humanity we need in this world today.

 

Next Step: A-2 CATEGORIES AND ARTICLES >>

 

 

"the primordial power of the feminine 

emanating from Basho's poetry"

 

                                 Ceci Miller

                                             Editorial consultant

                                     Seattle, Wash.

 

…the astonishing range of social subject matter

and compassionate intuition that Basho reveals in his links.

 

                                 Michele Root-Bernstein Ph.D

                        Department of Theater

                           Michigan State University

 

...through Robbins’ careful and beautifully thought-out

translations and explanations, the art has suddenly become more animated,

which was a surprising and unforeseen outcome when I first picked up the book.

 

           Harry Martin

                             Japan Society of the UK

 

The 300 articles are arranged in 17 categories:

 

   日本語の論文

     Renku Anthology

     Women in Basho

      BAMHAY (Basho Amazes Me.  How about you?)

      New Articles

 

Click on any one of these to read online, download, or print.


Please help spread knowledge of the real Basho, the warm affectionate Basho

whose "gentleness and humanity" has been hidden from us, of these resources he created 

for understanding and appreciating humanity.

 

basho4humanity@gmail.com

 

 

 







(A-02) Categories and Articles - Menu >>


The Three Thirds of Basho

 

 

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 presentation, to receive all royalties from sales, to spread Basho’s wisdom worldwide and preserve for future generations.

 

basho4humanity@gmail.com
Basho's thoughts on...

• Woman Central
• Introduction to this site
• The Human Story:
• Praise for Women
• Love and Sex in Basho
• Children and Teens
• Humanity and Friendship
• On Translating Basho
• Basho Himself
• Poetry and Music
• The Physical Body
• Food, Drink, and Fire
• Animals in Basho
• Space and Time
• Letters Year by Year
• Bilingual Basho 日本語も
• 芭蕉について日本語の論文
• Basho Tsukeku 芭蕉付句
• BAMHAY (Basho Amazes Me! How About You?)
• New Articles


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