haiku_a wild sea

HAIKU : A wild sea _ concept
Concept:
More focus to the meaning of Sado.
Sado, an island, was known for its long history of political
exiles. As a consequence, the island, surrounded here
by a “wild sea” and standing under the vast Amanogawa
(literally, River of Heaven), or Milky Way, comes to embody
the feeling of loneliness, both of the exiles at Sado and of
the traveler himself.
The poem has a majestic, slow moving rhythm, which
suggests the vastness and scale of the landscape.
The island surrounded by a “wild sea” also embodies the
longing of the exiles for their distant loved ones. The Milky
Way laid down by the Creative(zoka) becomes like a boat
or a bridge reaching out across the dark waters to the
waiting exiles at Sado, that is reaching out to the lonely
soul of the poet.
Book resource; Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900
Keywords:
Rapunzel, fairy tale, chivalry, (nature; milky way, river, stars,
fog), escape, secretly, play, paper puppet, printed, overlay
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