Bashō

The combination of the pieces of artwork and wording of the poems showed the cohesiveness of the story that is narrated to the viewer through artwork and words of poems. In the one poem and artwork combination the viewer sees a beautiful picture of a young Japanese woman brushing her long beautiful black hair. Next the words of the poem which are, "wrapping rice dumplings in bamboo leaves- which one hand she fingers- her hair over her forehead", which goes along with the first picture that is showed to the viewer. This is just one example, however, it shows how the pictures and words go together to ultimately form a story. In another example, there is piece of artwork that shows a house that appears to be synopsis of civilization. In the next scene of the video, the viewer sees the words of a poem as “with the air of a century past- the fallen leaves of garden”, which appears to be talking about the virtue of nature.

The creator of this video wanted to show the art and poems several different lights. The first viewpoint is that Bashō wrote not only poems but he also told stories. It took me a couple of times to go through the video. However, from the very beginning a viewer notices from the first to the last picture, along with the first set of words to the last sets of words, that all these words and images go together simultaneously to tell the story of what was happening in Japan during this time. The music also seemed to go along with the poems and images in the video to create a sense of peace.