Students will develop an understanding of Basho, the man and the poet, as a prominent figure in Japanese literature. Students will experience Japanese poetry through haiku. Standard 1. Students know ...

The completed chart of rules for haiku will take three to four twenty-minute lessons. The amount of lessons needed depends on the level of your students and their past experience with guided inquiry.

All text and haiku in the scroll were handwritten by Basho himself. He also illustrated it. Shinichi Fujita, professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Kansai University, says, “I was stunned ...

Chomu himself wrote Basho's life episodes, incorporating his famous haiku poems, such as "Furuike ya/ Kawazu tobikomu/ Mizu no oto" (An old pond/ a frog jumps in/ the splash of water), and travel ...