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- Buccho
- According to Sora, Basho visited here on 4.5. Buccho also
used the name Rakuami. He was the 21st chief priest of the Konponji. He
was attached to the Kashima Jingu and for nine years beginning in 1674 he
fought to get the temple property back. In 1683 he achieved his goal and
resigned as head priest. He died in 1715 at the age of 73.
- April
- Basho meets a throng of other travellers, especially a group of boisterous
young people , but then he draws away from them; first up a valley, through
a gate, and finally, after having exhausted all of the ten famous views of
Unganji, he crosses a bridge leaving the world completely behind. When at
last he reaches the temple, he ignores the religious site and goes around
to the back to seek out the ruins of Buccho's hermitage, a shrine to
poetry not religion. (Was Buccho also a poet?)
- Retreat
- Genmyo was a Chinese Zen priest of the southern Sung dynasty. According to
legend, he secluded himself in a cave and closed it up staying inside for 15
years. Houn was a great Chinese poet of the Liang dynasty (502-556 CE). He
founded the Hounji Temple. He built his hermitage on an isolated stone and
it is said that until the end of his days he never tired of disputation and
debate.
- Impromptu
- What does this mean that his poem is impromptu? Does this suggest that most
of his poems are not? Basho uses the term toriaenu and the notes
interpret it to mean ÒsokkyoÓ.
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