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In one of his travel sketches, Basho says he believed
~の価値を
信じる
In traveling light, but there were things that he had to carry
身軽に旅行する
on his back: acoat, an inkstone, a brush, writing paper
.. and medicine...
硯
. Imagine. having to walk all the way with these things.
~を想像して
on your back..
ずっと
はるばる
背負って
Your feet would hurt and...
..you...
would be... very tired
助詞
very
(Will)...
tired
The following haiku suggests how tired Basho was after
along day's walk:
くたびれ
草臥て
After weary hours.
T
..
非常に疲れている..
ごろ
寝かる記やWe found a country. Inn :
宿屋
藤の花
Wisteria flowers..

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Dat
部分否定
o It was not always. possible to find a comfortable Thn.
訳さない!
全てがんどうわ!
ではない
On his journey to the northern. part of Japan, Basho.
彼の心の旅では
had to go through the barrier of Shitomae to enter
通過する
the province of Dewa..
The gatekeepers, however, were. Suspicious. and kept
~に保つ
前置詞
心にするのを
Basho_waiting for a long time before finally allowing
許す
him to pass..
Yout
He started to climb a huge mountain and it. soon
became darki he had to find a place to stay overnight,
セミコロン
・接続詞を使わずに文をつなげる!
一晩中
関係副詞
非制限用法
Luckily, he found a gatekeeper's house, where he could
stay for the night.
一晩滞在する
_stay overight
agatekeeper's house ...
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○
Was it a nice place to stay. ?..
agatekeeper's house を指す
Be no means..
決してんではない
・のみじみ
蚤虱
Fleas and lice...
ばり
馬の尿する
A horse was staling
枕もと
At my pillow side...
Today, few of us would want to go on a journey of
「今は~ないであろう」
this kind.
少数の人
もの
この
Then why did Basho go Traveling, knowing all the
~しながら~
difficulties awaiting him?
待つ
全ての
。 await
変がいい?
wait
forがあとに必要!!
.....

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○ For Basho, traveling was an important part of life.
前置詞
一部
0
・poetic形
詩の
人生
○spite 名
悪意
不便なもの
。
Timportance
重要さ
As a poet, he felt he had to take to the road to find inconvenience 名
~として
詩人
poetic inspiration.
詩の
(悪意)
go on a trip
(ある目的で)~へ行く
In spite of the difficulties and inconveniences. The had
~にもかかわらず
不便
名詞
to go through, he was convinced of the importance of
~を確信している
○ Sunrise
日の出
fresh] [形
新鮮な
0
palace 名
宮殿
0
重要性
following nature - being one with nature - because
glass 名
massive
自然とひとつになる 前に述べたことを要約
巨大な
°
he believed that this was the source of his poetic.
age-old...
大昔からの
の源
0
..completely 34
完全に
信じる「~ということ」
inspiration...
Basho probably felt that the beauty of mature was..
おそらく ~だと感じた
his reward.
報い
見つけた
大きな喜び
He found. great pleasure in mountains and fields, beaches.
○crawl
はう
。 knee Pa
ひざ
。 overwhelm
~たぼう然とさせる..
° scene 名
景色
。 Seep
しみこむ
。 cicada
セミ

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and the sea.
Every new path, every sunrise brought fresh thoughts.
日の出
(bring)
持っていぐ
新しい 考え
非制限用法
On the journey to the Deep North, which resulted.
~への旅で
↓
the journey to~ 結果的に
を付加的に説明
In his work, The Narrow Road to the Deep North,
Basho experienced many moments of inspiration.
~になる
○ In Hiraizumi, Basho observed that three generations
= said that
~だと述べた
of the Fujiwara had passed like a dream.
一世代
Hidehira's palace was nothing more than a field of grass.
宮殿
分詞構文(条件)
~にすぎない
Readling the following haiku, you may be able to
できるかもしれない
understand a little bit about how Bashi's poetic
少し
= a little/a bit
"動詞"
imagination worked...
うまく働く
草

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夏草や
クはもの
兵どもが
夢の跡
Summer grass:
Ruins of the dreams
of warriors... past.
○ One, afternoon in Yamagata, Basho visited Ryushakuji
ある~
午後
temple.
There was a mountain of massive rocks covered with age-
~があった
巨大な
~でおおわれている
= very big
old trees..
It was completely silent.
完全に
AsBasho_crawled on his hands and knees from rock
同時
「~しながら
~するとき
~する間に」...
はう
よつんばいになって
to rock, he was overwhelmed by the tranguility...
~をぼう然とさせる
1. His spirit also grew quiet..
魂・精神
「人もの事が
しだいに)~く状態になる」
静寂
The scene led to the following well-known haiku;
景色~という結果になる
を引きおこす
.......
....
....
....
.

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・もづ
閑かさや
Such tranquility!
LHX3 Seeping into the very rocks.
蝉の声 The cicadas cry.
• After spending a few days beside the sea in the
~したあとで
数日
~の近くで
town of Sakata, Basho left for Kaga, present-day.
Kanazawa, about 500 kilometers away..
As he thought of the great distance ahead of him,
it almost broke his heart...
~の前に
~を悲しませる
When he reached Niigata, 200 kilometers from Sakata....
he wrote the following haiku:
荒海や How wild the sea!
佐渡に横たら、 Like a bridge to Sado,
天の河
The Milky Way.

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○Basho had no permanent home...
→didnthave. 永久的
持たなかった
(be)"
He was on the road constantly,
旅行して
In addition to his trip to the Deep North, he also made.
心に加えて
long Trips to Shiga, Mie, and kyoto..
He had no interest at all in money or property..
~に全然興味ない
分詞構文
資産
Having nothing of value, he had no fear of being
D
To permanent
0
永久的な
。 property.
資産
o rob
うばう
• fixed #
固定された
• concern Ro
心配
sandal 名
。
サダル
necessity 名
必要なもの
Q
• essentially #
0
transient 形
理由を表す
= valueable
(よくないことが起こる)
一時的な
〜なので
robbed on his journeys...
恐れ・可能性
• sink
沈む
• mud R.
°
While on the road, Basho experienced a great sense of freeclomo
間 旅をしている
~のセンス自由
○
He noted: "I had no fixed plan or route..
書き留める繰り返し決められた
使われている
I could go wherever I liked..
どこでも
心配
My only concerns were where to stay at night and...
どこに〜か
すべきか
泥
.. possession. ....
所有物
self.名
自己
○vision名
。
未来
eternity. 名
○ endless] [形]
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whether I could find straw sandals that fit my feet,”
サンダル
~にぴったり合う
Starting on a journey with only the necessities of life
・動名詞
0
必要なこと
was probably important for Basho's poetic imagination.
Basho was well aware that this world is essentially.
根本的
transient : "Mountains fall, rivers change course,
一時的
進路を変える
old roads disappear and new roads are built, rocks sink.
沈む
into the mud, and trees grow old and new Trees spring up.
泥
= come out
急に現れる
Basho might have thought that wealth would simply blind
思ったのかもしれない
簡単な~(人の
I him to the beauty of nature...
への判断を失う
過去
will
Therefore, he chose to cast away possessions to allow
それゆえ
自己
~することに決める
所有物
非制限法
his. True self to be one with nature, which, in fact,
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was the source of his poetic imagination..
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North is about one particular.
ある特定の
trip Basho took, but more than that, it is about life itself.
the Narrow Road NE
trip Basho took "
• For Basho, life an earth was a journey in search of a
vision of eternity..
未来像
~を探して追求
非制限
Basho found his vision in nature, which is always changing!
but which is also repeating itself in endless cycles.
くり返し起こる
終わりのない
By capturing one moment in a haiku image, Basha found.
することによって
his vision of eternity...