HAIKU JAPAN

basho,the japanese haiku master,a samurai poet or poet samurai, and a journeyman or poet traveller.
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MATSU BASHO,pseudonym of matsu munefusa,b.1644,ueno,japan and
d.november 28,1694,osaka,japan,who started writing haiku as a new wave and style of japanese poetry ,in 1679.this was within a thousand years after zartosht gatha,which then comes to persian dobeiti and robai of rudaki,khayam,rumi and others.they all could be considered as predecessors of haiku ,in forms and contins.
BASHO is PLANTAIN TREE  in japanese ,or BARHANG, that the poet used to sit underneath and built his cottage their,also a reminiscent of WILLOW TREE of persian poets.

khayam ,the persian poet, and his beloved under the tent of willow tree ,also basho of japan under basho tree or plantain
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*IN THE MIDST OF PLAIN
SINGS A SKYLARK
FREE OF ALL
-BASHO
i tell you this story,told first by george seferis,a greek poet and haikuist:
a basho's pupil,kikakou,read this haiku for basho:
LOOK,A DRAGONFLY,
REMOVE ITS WINGS
A PEPPER TREE
basho scolded and told him : we musn't abuse nature and suggested to reverse this haiku to make it better.
LOOK,A PEPPER TREE
ADD WINGS-
A DRAGONFLY

*A SHORT NIGHT
PEONY OPENED
AGAIN
-BUSON,also YOSA BUSON
 poet and painter
b.1716,kema,japan
d.january 17,1784,kyoto,japan
buson also experinced chinese poems.they are called: chinese poems in japanese