And, basically, it is not an issue of who was great or merely good, but that each did what she could as well as she could. Frankly, I'm neither. However, one does not have to investigate far to find that most of the anthologies of haiku are written by men. If she is earnest about haiku, teach her through another. The duty of men and women is the production of heirs.
Dissipation prevents the richness and unity of the mind.
The Way of Haiku arises from concentration and lack of distraction. Look well within yourself. Thank goodness this was not the advice Basho followed because he did have female students. True, most of them were either wives, sisters, mothers or prostitute friends of his favorite renga partners or students and thus, Basho did allow them to add their poetry to the links of men writing renga. In his last years and his final illness in 1694, Basho, gladly let the nun Ukoh take care of him and run his affairs.