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Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it.Yosa Buson
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In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.Yosa Buson
3 Quotes & Sayings By Yosa Buson
Yosa Buson was a Japanese poet and is often called the most important Japanese poet of the 20th century. He was born in 1864 as the son of a samurai family. In 1882 he published his first collection of poems, called "The Scarlet Ibis" after a bird he saw in the forest near his home. It contained 23 poems, with a total length of about 200 lines
The book was very popular and sold out rapidly. In 1887 he went to Kyoto to study Buddhist scriptures under a famous Buddhist monk named Shijō Saigyō. In 1901, at age 42, he retired from government service and moved to Kamakura, where he died in 1916.
His most famous work is "Chushingura" (The 47 Ronin), based on a Japanese legend about the samurai who avenged their lord's death. His most lasting impact on Japanese literature was his development of an entirely new poetic form called tanka, which is used to this day.