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I think place is a personality of your area.
The nature things we looked at are plants, water, climate, land, and
soil. Human things are machines, language, jobs, clothes, buildings,
government, communication, and poor or rich. I looked for these items in
my station Sendai. It was one of the places Basho visited. If l was
Basho, I would feel happy and fun in the place because I could see a lot
of things to write for haikus. The plants are a lot of iris and
blossoms, some pines and bush clover. But not that many pines and asebi.
It had a river. For the climate are two things- dew and wind. Languages
are poetry and praying. A Lot of jobs were at this station like wood
block carving establishments, haiku poet, painter of maps and paintings.
Clothes are in the sandals. Buildings in the form of a city, castle,
houses, Yakushido, eaves and (thatched) roof were there. Government is
military parade ground. Communication is poems, praying, drawing, and
education. Being poor or rich was shown by the pilgrims.
Basho was a great Japanese poet who wrote
haikus and was the greatest poet of his time. He was born in 1644 in a
lower Samurai family which wasn’t very rich. He wasn’t very healthy,
either. When he grew up, he worked in a water department for sometime
and then changed his job many more times until he was rich enough to
become a full haiku poet. On becoming a full poet, he started teaching
children how to write haikus. Sometime later his pupils built him a
small hut near a banana tree. The banana tree gave him his name which is
Basho (which means banana tree),but sometime later Basho got restless
with his work and then did Zen meditation to realize what to do. He
decided to travel across the whole nation and started his journey to the
north of Japan. If I met Basho today, I would probably like him because
when you talk about him it seems like he would be kind and generous and
that’s why I would like him.
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