The Priest and the Willow

The Priest and the Willow (遊行柳, Yugyō yanagi) is a Noh play based on the experiences of the 12th-century poet and travelling-monk Saigyō. == Original kernel == Saigyō was travelling to North Japan, when he sat in the shade of a willow-tree, later identified by Bashō as being close to the village of Ashino, and wrote a waka: " ‘Just a brief stop,’/ I said when stepping off the road/into a willow's shade/where a bubbling stream flows by,/as has time since my ‘brief stop’ began".

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