We are studying Basho- who was a Haiku master and station eighteen- which is Sendai. This is in Honshu, Japan. Sendai was the darkest place on earth with shadows and plants. Basho was traveling too much and not caring about his health. We think that Basho has written a pile of haikus about this place. Basho visited on the day when they threw leaves of irises and prayed to get good health. We hope you learn about Basho and things that he done. He also traveled to many other places in Japan.  

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.