Currently running at Kobayashi Gallery in Tokyo’s Minato district, “A Wild Sea” brings together 18 contemporary Filipino artists that draws from the poet Matsuo Bashō’s haiku, “A Wild Sea”: A wild sea ...

Donald Keene's journey tracing the footsteps of haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in Basho's masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi," which Keene later translated into English as "The Narrow Road to Oku ...

In 1689, the area - in the north-east of the main island of Honshu - was made famous by Japan's most famous haiku poet, Matsuo Basho, when he penned his travelogue, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

My group cycled through bamboo forests, rice villages and the haiku field, once frequented by Matsuo Basho, one of Japan’s most famous Haiku poets.

Born Daniel Robinson Jr., he adopted Basho in honor of the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, a master of haiku. Concision, however, was not part of the guitarist’s forte.

Matsushima Bay in Miyagi Prefecture is dotted with 260 pine-covered islands famously immortalized in Matsuo Basho's haiku and woodblock prints. Hike along the bay on foot, sail its waters, and ...

The city of Iga is particularly famous as the home of Igaryu ninja and Matsuo Basho, one of Japan’s most famous haiku poets who traveled throughout Japan in the 17th century. The Igaryu Ninja Museum ...

The 17th-century haiku master Matsuo Basho even penned two poems during a visit. Japanese tourists still flock to Kaga’s onsen towns every fall, when the leaves turn fiery and snow crab is in ...

This illustration of Matsuo Basho, the 17th-century master of haiku, is by the renowned artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). In Japan, many of Basho’s short poems are reproduced on monuments ...

Matsuo Basho was one of the most famous master’s of the 17-syllable poetry, and The Narrow Road is a collection of haiku that reflects his quest to free himself of earthly desires in favor of ...