Place means the personality of your area or
you and your area. Plants, water, climate, land, soil and physical are
all connected to nature in their own special way because humans have
nothing to do with it. Machine, job's, clothes, building, government and
communication are all connected to human in there own way because humans
have most to do with it. One of the places Basho visited was Station
16-Kasajima. It is on Honshu Japan and is the 16th place he visited. I
am going to talk about the nature that is in Station 16. First, some
land things are Abumizuri, Shiroishi, and Kasajima. Further more, one
thing about soil is that the soil was muddy because of the early wet
season. Lastly, one thing that is physical in my station is Basho. I
hope you have learned a little bit about the nature that was in Station
16. Sanekata to talk to him. Lastly, one clothing that is in Station 16
is Basho's raincoat. I hope you have understood more about the human
side of place.
Matsu
Basho was very famous because ofhis Japanese poetry. He was famous for
forn of poetry called "Haiku." He also was a famous Corter. He
was a very calm and
religious
man. Sometimes he went on very long journeys and got a better
understanding of
himself. Basho had problems with his body in which made it very hard to
move. So he
must have
really needed or wanted to go on these long journeys. Once when he went
on a journey
he was so weak that when he passed a temple he failed to dismount his
horse to worship
so the gods threw him off his horse. At the end of his life he died of a
sickness but
he was prepared to die. When he went on long journeys he went because he
grew restless with
his life and poetry .He wanted to do something exciting with his life.
He went
on these journeys to go looking for a better life. He went to certain
places because he
was trying to follow in the footsteps of two other poetry writers that
he really liked.Some
other times after some of the journeys he tried to learn "Zen
Meditation." When he went
to Station 16 in a very long journey across Japan called "Kasajima"
he felt depressed
about the environment around him. He felt tired and weak at Kasajima.