Example
Bashō composed the following hokku in 1689 during his journey through Oku (the Interior), while writing renku in the house of an official in Sukagawa:
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- ふうりうの初やおくの田植うた
- fūryū no hajime ya oku no taueuta
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- beginnings of poetry—
- the rice planting songs
- of the Interior
Having heard the field workers singing as they planted rice in his host's fields, Bashō composed this hokku so that it complimented his host on the elegance of his home and region, by associating it with the historical "beginnings" (hajime) of poetic art, while suggesting his joy and gratitude at the opportunity to compose renku for the "first time" (hajime) in the Interior.
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