Travel and Encounter in Early Modern Japan Main Menu Course Description Edo Period Ihara Saikaku Matsuo Bashō

Unit 3.4

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Or, think about the unexpected pathos Bashō found in fishing implements as he stood on the shore where a famous battle had taken place in antiquity:
 
“Octopus traps!  Fleeting dreams under the summer moon.” 
 
On the one hand, we have these very mundane (and probably awful-smelling) fishing traps, and on the other an elevated allusion to the dead warriors of antiquity.  The poem is sad, it’s nostalgic, it’s startling, it’s maybe a bit humorous—we have a new set of allusions and emotions that are being juxtaposed in unusual ways.
 

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