Thanks to Steven at the Golden Fish, I have just discovered a film called Winter Days, an animated version based on a renga (in 36 stanzas), the hokku of which was written by Basho (as well as 6 other stanzas), each section filmed by a different director.
I'm not sure why the links aren't working at that ste, but here's a link to the first part from Youtube. Hopefully the rest will be discovered there.
Some other links of interest:
Wikipedia, where you view the entire poem in translation.
An interview with the director of the first stanza, the hokku, in which he goes into some detail.
THE SOUND OF THE SEA
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There is a pleasant autumn daoku / objective hokku by Gyōdai. Blyth
translates it thus: Indian summer;All day long the sound of the seaIs far
off. Oddly en...
1 week ago
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