Show there to Is art in literature in prose in poetry tho the japanese poca billio Bi Bli ilio fillo produced n masterpiece pond frog fog jump in fit water sound bound that means nothing it if you are arc not familiar with it writes Alata lliel myo alya in 0 the I 1 e north american review but tile the translation of his thought into tha picture A little cottage near tile tho old pond where the grow in tile the garden of green moss gnoss the stone atone lantern and the simple gate one rainy day in spring hasho basho seated himself in front of life his desk looking through a round window toward the pond and meditated suddenly ho heard a sound I 1 of splashing loshing sp water then he saw a frog swimming and anal ansho jumped and in ecstasy lie called out for there was inspiration and ho he started his hie poem old pond frog jump julip in water sound ile he composed his poem unconscious dreamlike what n wonderful inspiration that wits was the poem contains 17 syllables according to the japanese rulo rule of alve seven five no artist con can illumine a 9 picture so vividly in so few words |