/lit/ - Literature

>>20077868
nice frog, anon, very wabi-sabi

>>20046794
these frogs are no match for this wabi-sabi one corner style masterpiece

>>20011801
The sage Ryokan noticed a shoot of bamboo growing through the floor of his closet. He admired bamboo (for it is empty and straight) and took great interest in the small shoot. Eventually, it grew too large for its enclosure, so he decided to burn a small hole in his roof. He took a candle to the thatching, but it caught fire more readily than expected and his entire hut, along with all of the surrounding bamboo, was destroyed in the blaze.

>>20009836
The sage Ryokan noticed a shoot of bamboo growing through the floor of his closet. He admired bamboo (for it is empty and straight) and took great interest in the small shoot. Eventually, it grew too large for its enclosure, so he decided to burn a small hole in his roof. He took a candle to the thatching, but it burned more readily than expected and his entire hut, along with all of the surrounding bamboo, was destroyed in the blaze.

>>19951220
Don't let it affect you. This is the path that you've taken and the cards you've been dealt.

>>19948902
I just did, here’s what I found:

Pflugfelder cites “biographers” but only refers to one book by Iwata Junichi called The Homosexuality of Poet Basho. The only evidence cited is the “fascinated by the ways of homosexual love” quote.

The Ueda book on Basho (cited in Wikipedia) also only mentions that quote and states it alongside Basho’s youthful whims, alongside his far-fetched ambition to become a state official and landowner. I browsed the Ueda book for any sexual themes and there are plenty of poems by Basho on male-female sexuality, none about male-male.

Leupp says that Basho “wrote several haikus on the subject” of homosexual love, but doesn’t cite any examples and his only evidence otherwise is the same exact “fascinated” quote. His other evidence that makes him so convinced that Basho was having sex with his disciples is the quote from Basho where he mentions how he was sad that Tokoku died.

So it’s as baseless as initially thought.

>>19930150
This is the ideal representation of a frog. You may not like it, but this is what peak One Corner style looks like.