Although Buson sought to emulate Basho, his own poetry  is clearly different and versatile. Buson read classics extensively and  studied different styles of Chinese and Japanese paintings. Poetry and  painting affected each other in his art. His poems were, diversely  enough, rich in imagery, clearly depicting fine movements and sensual  appearances of things, dynamic with wider landscapes, lyrical, sensitive  to human affairs, romantic with hidden stories, graceful, and longingly  time-conscious. Buson completed his own style of painting in his later  years when he was using the name of Sha-In.