Matsuo Basho was born in Ueno, Iga. His real name was Matsuo Toshichiro, and he was also known as Tadayemon.

At the age of ten, he started working as a page boy for Yoshitada, the heir of the general Toudo family.

Ryotada learned Samon haiku from Kitamura Yoshion, so Basho became very close to Samon.

Later in Edo, Basho wrote "The Ten Hundred Rhymes of Tan Lin", which already has a very obvious haiku style of Tan Lin.

Later, during his stay in Koshu, he composed "Haihai Harmony Rhyme", "Musashi Song", "Xuri" and other lines.

It was not until the completion of "Senoko" that the style of haiku style was officially established. Matsuo Basho's main works include: "Journey to the Wilderness", "Journey to Kashima", "The Story of the Miracle", "The Path in the Deep" and "Seven Steps of Haiku"

Collection" etc.

His style mainly expresses the author's delicate feeling and expresses a leisurely attitude towards life.

Famous haiku writers in Japan include Soken and Arakida Moritake in the late Muromachi period (1392-1573), both of whom were haiku renge authors; in the Edo period, there was Matsunaga Sadoku, who advocated the entertainment and educational aspects of haiku and was known as

Zhenmen can be said to be a school that leans towards the classical.

At that time, haixi was still in the stage of entering haixi renge.

On the other hand, there is Xishan Zongyin, who advocates the comicality of haiku and emphasizes the freedom and unrestrainedness of creation, which is called Tanlin School.

Another person with the characteristics of this school is the famous haiku writer Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693).

Matsuo Basho, generally known as the haiku saint, blended the classical techniques of Matsunaga Sadoku and the free and unrestrained style of Nishiyama Munein, and developed them to an unprecedented level.

Although Matsuo is the surname of this Japanese poet, he is usually called Basho directly without his surname, such as Basho.

Matsuo Basho was born in the 21st year of Henei (1644 AD), and his childhood name was Kinsaku, and later he was named Sobo (sobo; むねふさ; 1667 AD).

He used many pen names in his life, including Taoqing, Bajiao, Diaoyuexuan, Bochuantang, Yaoyaoxuan, Huataoyuan, Xuxuzhai, and Fengluofang.

For example, the early haiku name Taoqing (Yanbao 3rd year; AD 1675) was used to express respect for Li Bai, the poet of the Tang Dynasty. "Li Bai" and "Taoqing" are just opposite - which is also humorous.

The former refers to unripe peaches or green peaches, while the latter refers to white plums.

Because his disciple Li Xia gave him a banana tree in the 9th year of Yanbao (1681) and planted it in the garden where he lived in seclusion at that time, it was named Bashoan.

Soon after, he began to use Basho as his haiku in the 2nd year of Tenwa (1682 AD).

It means that the climate is too cold to produce fruit. In addition, he intentionally used this pseudonym to recall the idea of ??poetry being useless, or to influence the theory that poetry is useless.

Many of Matsuo Basho's pen names are rarely translated in Roman pinyin. In addition to the Japanese Pinyin Matuo Basyou, there is also the Roman Pinyin corresponding Matuwo Baseu spelling for use in English life introductions.

He was born in Ueno, Iga, near Kyoto, now Ueno City, Mie Prefecture, and spent his youth in Ueno.

Father Matsuo and Zaemon are low-level samurai.

His father died in 1656, when Basho was 13 years old, and the family was taken care of by his younger brother.

Basho is the second boy in the family, with an older brother, an older sister, and a younger sister.

In the beginning, he was the servant of the local lord Todo Ryōtada. Todo Ryōtada was only two years older than him. He was fond of romance and had a haiku name of cicada. They both liked to write haiku.

Matsuo Basho first became famous in 1662.

Basho's first sentences were included in the "Sayayama Collection" published in 1664 (Kanbun 4th year), and two sentences were included in the collection: "I stayed in the night of the bright moon, and the crimson cherry blossoms bloomed to think of my old age." Around this time, he

He was given the name "Zongfang" as a samurai.

In 1666 (Kanbun 6th year), his master passed away, and Matsuo Basho chose to leave the family rather than stay to serve the new master.

Tradition holds that he lived in Kyoto for at least part of the next six years; during this time he published several collections of poems.

In 1672 (Kanbun 12th year), he moved to Edo (now Tokyo).

During his eight years in Edo, he traveled widely, recited many poems, and established a family.

By 1676 he was recognized as a haiku master, publishing his own literary pamphlets and judging poetry competitions.

In the winter of 1677 (the fifth year of Enho), the famous haiku comedian Ito Shintoku from Kyoto came to Edo.

In the spring of the next year, Shinde, Basho and Yamaguchi Sotou composed a hundred rhymes and published "Three Hundred Rhymes of Peach Green".

He accepted a group of disciples who followed him, and these disciples built the first Basho hermitage for him in 1680.

Basho was thirty-seven years old at this time, and suddenly moved from prosperous Japan to Fukagawa, which was still an inaccessible place at that time.

Basho found his success unsatisfactory and turned to Zen Buddhism (contemplation) for solace.

During this period, he practiced Zen, read, and traveled far, and enjoyed reading Lao Zhuang and Li Du.

In the winter of 1682 (Tianhe 2nd year), Bashoan was burned down. There is a saying that "Sudden enlightenment is like the change of a burning house, giving birth to a mind of nowhere."

His mother died early in 1683, leaving him without any parents.

In the winter of 1683, his disciples built a second Basho hermitage for him, but he was still not satisfied.

In the autumn of 1684 he embarked on what he later called the "Wilderness Journey" or "The Record of the Weathered Skeleton" ("野ざらし记"); see [2] for the original); at the end of this journey he composed "Essays"

Journey" and some poetry.

He died in 1694 and spent most of the decade traveling.

This journey took him from Edo to Mount Fuji, to Ise, Ueno and Kyoto, and returned to Edo in the summer of 1685.