The Chinese Painting Elements In Yosa Buson’s Haiku

Both haiku and painting creation are important elements in Yosa Buson’s works,who is a famous painter and haiku master in Japan. He has a certain amount ofresearch and imitation of painting in particular Chinese traditional painting. With thecreation of haiku, Yosa Buson to put painting and literature together in his works. BothChinese painting theories and painting skills have been used into the creation of haiku,to create poetic haiku.Literature and painting as two different art forms, each with its unique rules andstyles of art, but both also have common aesthetic ideal and have certain phaseconnectivity in the expression expresses. Scholars often also will exist in differentfields of literature and painting to study together. In ancient China, Literature and arttheorists have most study of poetry and the rich for the outcome of the comparative.The so-called concept of painting beauty can produce by poetry in scope. The drawingperformance skills which is used in poetry composition, color, creating artisticconception, to construct the common artistic conception of poetry and painting inpoetry.Yosa Buson has profound literary accomplishment and unique aestheticconsciousness, who is good at painting and haiku creation. In Meiji period of Japan,Masaoka Shiki who is the first to advocate sketch poet of Japanese haiku have beenhighly praised Yosa Buson’s haiku:"extremely objective is equal to painting andweeds in the haiku of Yosa Buson which can draw directly into a painting."Based on the literature and painting characteristics of phase connectivity, thescholar spirit is blended the painting and haiku naturally unifies together by YosaBuson. The form of unique words show the goodness of nature, social life and thecharacter image, the character of poetic haiku.This paper will be divided into five parts: the introduction, the relationshipbetween literature and painting, Chinese painting elements in Yosa Buson’s haiku andreasons with Chinese painting elements in Yosa Buson’s haiku and conclusion.This article tries to find Chinese painting elements in Yosa Buson’s haiku fromthe phase connectivity of literature and painting, and explore the two different forms of art in the perfect combination of haiku and Chinese traditional painting from anaesthetic perspective of literature and painting.