The Records of a Travel-Worn Satchel
A winter departure from Edo, seen off by friends with a party and a paper cloak, takes the traveller down the coast road to his home province for the New Year, then to the Ise shrines, the cherries at Yoshino, Nara, Osaka and the beach at Suma where the Heike were beaten. The prose opens by refusing the titles of poet, priest and layman alike, and sets down the claim that one thread runs through Saigyō's verse, Sōgi's linked poetry, Sesshū's painting and Rikyū's tea. Left unfinished and printed twenty years after his death, it is the plainest statement he made of what he thought the practice was for.
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