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梅遠近南すべく北すべく ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north

Plum blossoms here and there; south would do, and north would do.

Plum blossoms everywhere
I should go south
I should go north		 ume ochikochi
minami subeku
kita subeku		 梅遠近
南すべく
北すべく
Buson buson 蕪村

梅遠近南すべく北すべく (ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku): plum blossoms here and there; south would do, and north would do. 遠近, ochikochi, is far and near, here and there; 南すべく and 北すべく are to go south and to go north, each with べく, would do, may, and nothing after them, so the sentence stops in the air. Within fifteen years of its first print, a Kyoto gazetteer had attached it to a plum-viewing valley near Fushimi. The grammar books made it their example of the unsaid close, and supplied what is left out: either way, as the heart pleases. Blyth called the feeling nameless and read it the same way, anywhere will do in these days of renewed life. Plum everywhere, so both roads are good: the verse is not a choice but a spring in which any direction is right. The English is Timothy L. Jackowski's, made for Takase Studios.

Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north (梅遠近南すべく北すべく) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north 梅遠近南すべく北すべく ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku Vertical Block VB2C
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north (梅遠近南すべく北すべく) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north 梅遠近南すべく北すべく ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku Vertical Cursive VC6B
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north (梅遠近南すべく北すべく) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north 梅遠近南すべく北すべく ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku Vertical Design VD4B
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north (梅遠近南すべく北すべく) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north 梅遠近南すべく北すべく ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku Vertical Design VD6B
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north (梅遠近南すべく北すべく) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north 梅遠近南すべく北すべく ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku Vertical Design VD6C
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north (梅遠近南すべく北すべく) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north 梅遠近南すべく北すべく ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku Vertical Semi-Cursive VS4C
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north (梅遠近南すべく北すべく) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase
Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north 梅遠近南すべく北すべく ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku Vertical Semi-Cursive VS6C
More about 梅遠近南すべく北すべく

The verse is Buson's: he wrote it out under the headnote 野徑梅, plum along the field paths, in a letter to his pupil 霞夫 that a 1925 edition dates provisionally to 1777, and it was first printed in his 蕪村句集 of 1784.

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Japanese Scroll of Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north (ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase

Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north (ume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku)

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

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Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north as a hand-brushed scroll

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