The Significance of Animism in Haiku Poetry: from Matsuo Basho to Natsuishi Banʼya

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  • アニミズム俳句の意義――芭蕉から 夏石番矢『巨石巨木学』までを読 みつつの考察

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Here we discussed the significance of animism in haiku poetry. We focused the “monistic animism” suggested by Nakazawa Shinʼichi, which states that animism can capture the invisible realm that the modern Western culture have failed to think about. We argue that haiku poems aim to become “the thing itself,” thereby creating poetic language to open the “communication” to something fundamental beyond human perception. From this perspective we read animistic haiku poetry by various poets, arguing that animist haiku culminated in Natsuishi Banʼyaʼs Science of Giant Rocks and Trees.

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