June 9, 2009

Haiga229-Basho


Haiku by Basho. From "Narrow Road to Oku"
Basho wrote two earlier versions of this haiku. I included all three in calligraphy style. The shapes of the calligraphies seem to suggest the locusts' trill falling on to the stone.

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3 comments:

Linda Brazeau said...

Yet another beautiful visual - this gives me a sense of aloneness or isolation, all but the trill....

Linda

kuni_san said...

I found in my dictionary that the westerners are not fond of cicada's trill. Is it true?

Linda Brazeau said...

I don't know, that is not something that I am aware of.