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. Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 in Edo .
source : panoramio.com
ishizue from Hitachi Kokubunji Pagoda
soseki 礎石 Lit. foundation stone.
A base stone which receives the dead load of a pillar. The upper side of the base stone was made roughly level. Natural and processed stones both have a mortise *hozoana ほぞ穴, into which a tenon *hozo ほぞ, is inserted that extends from the bottom of the pillar. A tenon sometimes is cut into the base stone to be inserted into a corresponding mortise on the bottom of the pillar. Some base stones have an extension which serves as a sill or a ground plate, jifukuza 地覆座.
During the 7-8c a porous limestone called tufa *gyoukaigan 凝灰岩, was used and the developed of stone progressed. From the latter part of the 8c after floored buildings became common, stone processing declined. Many natural base stones were cut from andesite, anzangan 安山岩, a type of volcanic rock and granite, kakougan 花崗岩. A firmly packed bed of golfball-sized stones underlay base stones in the ancient period. The use of natural stones for base stones was common until the premodern age when carefully cut stones were used.
source : JAANUS
大寺の礎殘る野菊かな
ootera no ishizue nokoru nogiku kana
the foundation stones
of the big temple remain
amid wild chrysanthemums . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve
Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規 visiting Large Temples：
. Daiji, ootera, oodera 大寺 large temple .
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薄月の礎しめる柳哉
usu-zuki no ishizue shimeru yanagi kana
a willow
makes possible
this cloud-streaked moon
Tr. Chris Drake
This spring hokku was published in a New Year's collection in 1802. A faint moon seen through thin clouds is usually an autumn image, but the hokku is placed among spring hokku, so it seems to be about thin spring clouds, mist, or haze, with willows being the main seasonal image. The moon is dimly visible through thin clouds or mist, and its vague outline appears as a pale circle of light in the sky above a willow tree. If the clouds are moving, the moon may appear to be undulating or floating. The new leaves on the willow below are still small and give the whole tree a diffuse, swelling, cloudlike appearance, so the image does not seem to be about the thin, drooping limbs of the willow literally supporting the moon but about a tender balance and mutual dependence between sky and earth in which the moon on this night seems to find its basic shape in the even more diffuse, looming shape of the dimly moonlit willow below it. Somehow taught or visually supported by the willow, the cloud-streaked moon seems to be trying to realize one of its most basic forms. As for humans, without the support of the willow, we wouldn't be able to make out this very basic form of the moon: the moon couldn't exist this way for us without the willow down below.
Issa uses ishizue, 'foundation, basis, ground, support, foundation stone,' in a similar way in another early spring hokku from 1792:
harukaze ya ishizue shimeru asana-asana
spring wind --
the basic foundation
morning after morning
The days of spring seem to be defined by the early-morning strong wind. It blows hard to begin each day and sets the tone for the whole day, forming the basis for the way people experience and live through the spring.
Chris Drake
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礎や元日しまの巣なし鳥
ishizue ya ganjitsu shima no su nashi tori
cornerstone--
on New Year's morning
a bird without a nest
Tr. Lanoue
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