Donald Keene's journey tracing the footsteps of haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in Basho's masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi," which Keene later trans･･･ ...

For Andrew Fitzsimons, translating Matsuo Basho’s haiku was both a physical and internal journey. During his quest to render Basho’s complete works into English, the Tokyo-based writer and ...

This began a time when Basho began to travel. In 1684, he traveled to his birthplace which resulted in the work, The Weatherbeaten Trip. He also published a haiku collection, Winter Days, which was ...

It was this haiku, written by the Japanese master Matsuo Basho and translated by R.H. Blyth: ... Basho (1644-1694) was fond of the cicada as a subject for his spare and moving poetry.

Japan, Matsuo Basho, Haiku. Follow the path that inspired the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho’s most famous work. Arts & Architecture. Watch. Oil prices soar after Israel strikes on Iran - 13 Jun 2025.

This is the last haiku ever written by the 17th century Japanese poet Basho Matsuo. He dictated it from his deathbed in a rented room over a florist’s shop in the city of Osaka, in the autumn of ...

Basho by Kinkoku Yokoi (1761-1832). Source: Wikimedia Commons In mid-December, I got out my favorite book of haiku, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, edited by Robert Hass ...

But if haiku poet Matsuo Basho could handle this route in the 1680s, so could I. I was following Basho’s Trail , after all: a walking path starting in Tokyo , heading north to Hiraizumi, then ...

Statues of haiku poet Matsuo Basho and his student Kawai Sora greet visitors to Yamadera temple in the city of Yamagata on April 22, 2025. (Mainichi/Tadahiko Mori) Yamadera.