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Place is the personality of an area. Plants,
soil, land ,water and Climate are connected to nature because they have
nothing to do with human connections. Machinery, language, jobs,
clothes, buildings, communication, poor and rich, government and
transportation are connected to human because each of them have
something to do with what we do, what we wear, how we speak, what we use
and how we communicate, how wealthy we are, and who we have as leaders.
Kisagata is Basho’s thirty-second step in his travels of Japan. It is
located to the northeast of Sakata. In Kisagata, Basho saw huts,
temples, and he saw the barrier-gate of Muyamuya. Those were some of the
buildings that Basho saw. He used a boat and his feet for
transportation. The land he was in was Kisagata. The landforms he saw,
walked on, or climbed were mountains, sandy beaches, rocky shores and
steep hills. The water he saw was in a lagoon, sea and drivers. One of
the kinds of plants he saw were cherry blossoms. If I were Basho, I
would feel special to be able to see the many wonders of Japan in that
time.
Basho was a Japanese man who, because of his
heritage, was born to be a samurai. He discovered he had an interest in
poetry when he took lessons from a great poet. He then decided he wanted
to be poet not a samurai. He studied and wrote haiku and with time and
effort, became a very famous poet himself. Although Basho was very
famous, he was not rich. He lived in a tiny house. He was very brave and
adventurous for he traveled across many places, even though he was very
ill. Basho was a positive kind of person. He was always trying to focus
on the bright side of things. For example, if it was raining he could
imagine how beautiful it would look like when the weather was clear .He
was an observant person and wrote with much description. Basho was not
happy with the quality of his poems. He was also bored with his life. He
wanted to see the places that poets he admired had visited and wrote
about. So, he decided to go on a long journey across Japan. On
Basho' s journey to Kisagata, he learned about legends of the land such
as the legend of the Empress Jingu and the Hachiman shrine that was
built in Kisagata in her name. He saw the beauty of the land, mountains,
flowering silk trees and of lagoon Kisagata. He learned that what he had
read about Kisagata was true. If I met Basho today, I think
I would like him because he was adventurous. I would love to hear all
about the paces he had visited. I would like to have him help me with my
writing or maybe we could try some poetry.
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