さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮 sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve

Loneliness, and there is gladness in it too; autumn dusk.

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve (さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮 sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure Vertical Block VB4C

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮 sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure Vertical Block VB5C

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve (さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮 sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure Vertical Cursive VC5C

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve (さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮 sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure Vertical Design VD5B

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve (さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮 sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure Vertical Semi-Cursive VS4C

Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮 sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure Vertical Semi-Cursive VS5C

More about さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮

In loneliness there is joy too An autumn eve	sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure	さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮
Buson	buson	蕪村

Buson's verse catches a rare moment at the close of an autumn day. The loneliness a person has dreaded comes, and it turns out to be welcome. There is no image and no scene, only a feeling named and then the hour. That plainness is the art of it.

In the Japanese, the whole verse turns on one small word, も, which means too. The gladness sits inside the loneliness, not in place of it. 秋の暮 means autumn dusk and also the end of autumn, and the phrase holds both. The designs write the word ari with the kanji 有, where the printed editions spell it in kana; the word is the same.

The English follows R. H. Blyth's, from his Haiku of 1949.

The verse is Buson's, known from the 蕪村遺稿, the book of his verse gathered after his death and published in 1801, where it opens the run of autumn-dusk verses; no witness dates its composition.

We want you to be as happy with the meaning as you are with Master Takase's art. To learn more, visit Philology of さびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮.

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Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve (sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure)

Haiku by Buson on a traditional Japanese Scroll by Master Eri Takase.

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Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eve as a hand-brushed scroll

Master Takase personally brushes your scroll when you order, and it bears her red seal and her signature. The scroll has real silk borders and layered Japanese paper, so it hangs straight, and it arrives ready to display.