Yosa Buson, “original surname Taniguchi,” was born into a wealthy family in the year 1716 (luebering). Born and raised in a province of Japan called Settsu, his home and wealth weren’t enough to stop him from pursuing the arts. Buson, like many great poets of his time, traveled the land of Japan and studied under multiple masters. He slept at monasteries and inns as he traveled far across Japan in pursuit of literary success. Matsuo Basho wrote works such as “The Narrow Road of Oku,” which included pictures called “haiku pictures," (Varley, 152-153). These pictures were not created by Basho, but were created by Buson, a both “noted painter and a master of haiku," (Varley, 152-153). These haiku pictures, better know as haiga, are illustrations that really help paint the image into the beholder of the poem’s head. These images are usually painted in the top right corner in “calligraphic brush style,” (Reischauer, The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity). When he was 35 “he settled in Kyoto as a professional painter,” and he remained there for just about the rest of his life (Luebering).
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