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.