Who is Yosa Buson

Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson (与謝 蕪村, 1716 – January 17, 1784) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period. He is also known for completing haiga as a style of art, working with haibun prose, and experimenting with a mixed Chinese-Japanese style of poetry.

Biography

Early life, training, and travels

Buson was born in the village of Kema in Settsu Province (present-day Kema, Miyakojima Ward, Osaka). His original family name was Taniguchi. Buson scarcely discussed his childhood, but it is commonly thought that he was the illegitimate son of the village head and a migrant worker from Yoza. According to the Taniguchi family in Yosan...
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Yosa Buson Poems

• The Willow Leaves Fallen
  The willow leaves fallen,
  the spring gone dry,
  rocks here and there.
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• Listening To The Moon
  Listening to the moon,
  gazing at the croaking of frogs
  in a field of ripe rice.
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• Light Of The Moon
  light of the moon
  moves west - flowers' shadows
  creep eastward
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• He's On The Porch
  He's on the porch,
  to escape the wife and kids--
  how hot it is!
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• Evening Wind
  Evening wind:
  water laps
  the heron's legs.
  ...

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Yosa Buson Quotes

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Comments about Yosa Buson

• Lylella: yosa buson summer, autumn, winter. summer 1 the man and his wife once to be punished by death change into summer clothes ueda. - ppt download
• _ui1422: sweet springtime showers and no words can express how sad it all is yosa buson
• Dhulston: “sakura, sakura they fall in the dreams of sleeping beauty” – yosa buson.
• Samrasnake: happy world poetry day... washing the hoe-- ripples on the water; far off, wild ducks. - yosa buson (trans. robert hass)
• Haikueveryday: evading the fishnet and evading the fishing ropes the moon on the water — yosa buson

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