persimmons (credit: Joe Ravi, via Wikimedia Commons)
Nice, wild persimmons (Kobayashi Issa) Questions
澁いとこ
母が喰ひけり
山の柿
Nice, wild persimmons
And notice how the mother
Eats the bitter parts
1. What two persons are in
the picture portrayed by this poem? What evidence in the poem tells you so? How
old are they, probably? (Explain.)
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2. Which of these two
persons gets to eat the sweet parts of the persimmons? Why? (Explain fully.)
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4.
What nations in the world probably have a scene like the scene in this poem
occur regularly? Why do you think so? (Explain your reasons fully.)
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5.
What traditional poetic form is this poem an example of? How closely does it
fit the traditional form?
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Mother
and Child 3
(credit: Marie-Sophie Mejan, via Wikimedia
Commons)
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