"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers."
Matsuo Bashō was born in 1644 near Ueno in Iga Province, Japan. The Matsuo family was of samurai descent and his father was probably a musokunin, a class of landowning peasants granted certain privileges of samurai. (Musokunin means, "low-status samurai without land, low-status farmer without land.") Little is known of his childhood. The Matsuo were a major ninja family, and Bashō was trained in ninjutsu (the traditional Japanese art of stealth, camouflage and sabotage, developed in feudal times for espionage, and now practiced as a martial art.) If you would like to know more, you can go to this link.
The flowers are Columbine and were found at Meadowlark Gardens on May 7th, 2025
