Basho!!!!! Banana tree!!!!!!!!!!

psychoholicagogo said:
No blossoms and no moon,
and he is drinking sake
all alone!

Sadistic_Miike said:

thankyou for being probably the one person who actually knows who Basho is... other than the simpsons quote of Impossible to Tell

Lemonkid said:
I love Basho... I've thought about getting the English translation of one of his haiku done on my back.

The Narrow Road to Oku (esp. the illustrated version I have) is one of my all time favorite books.

Sadistic_Miike said:

Why not just get the Kanji, since the english translation will be inferior to the actual Haiku, and in truth, Haikus are only 5-7-5 in Japanese, not English, and asides from being 5-7-5 they work on the coupling of sylables rather than strictly sylable count, something like 1-2-2-2-2-2-1 or the like..

Cassiopeia said:


Banana Phone?

Lemonkid said:
Because I think getting the Kanji would be utterly pretentious.

Cassiopeia said:

True story, man.

Sadistic_Miike said:

It's only utterly pretentious when people can't read Japanese.

Lemonkid said:

I can't read Japanese. I have very mixed feelings about the whole "adorning yourself with the cultural artifacts of other cultures" thing.

Except for the excerpts from the Koran translated into Esperanto and spoken by Anime cartoon characters that I get henna tattooed onto my cock every week.

Cassiopeia said:


Banana Phone?

Lemonkid said:
I can't read Japanese. I have very mixed feelings about the whole "adorning yourself with the cultural artifacts of other cultures" thing.

Except for the excerpts from the Koran translated into Esperanto and spoken by Anime cartoon characters that I get henna tattooed onto my cock every week.

Lemonkid said:
I love Basho... I've thought about getting the English translation of one of his haiku done on my back.

The Narrow Road to Oku (esp. the illustrated version I have) is one of my all time favorite books.