Placing kireji in hokku [haiku] is for those beginners who do not understand the nature of cutting and uncutting very well. . . .
[However,] there are hokku which are well-cut without kireji. Because of their subtle qualities, [for beginners] more common theories have been founded, and taught.. . .
Once, the master, Bashō, said, as an answer to the question of Jōsō [one of Bashō's ten principal disciples. b.1662?-1704]:
"In waka, after 31- on, there is kire. In hokku, after 17-on, there is kire." Joso was immediately enlightened.
"In waka, after 31- on, there is kire. In hokku, after 17-on, there is kire." Joso was immediately enlightened.
Then, another disciple asked [on the same topic], and the master, Bashō, answered,
"When you use words as kireji, every word becomes kireji. When you do not use words as kireji, there are no words which are kireji."
And the master said,
"From this point, grasp the very depth of the nature of kireji on your own." All that I have described here is what the master revealed, until the very threshold of its true secret [oral tradition], the thickness of one leaf of shoji-paper.
And the master said,
"From this point, grasp the very depth of the nature of kireji on your own." All that I have described here is what the master revealed, until the very threshold of its true secret [oral tradition], the thickness of one leaf of shoji-paper.
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