Spring 1694, Basho set off on his last journey – to his birthplace. While ill in Osaka, he wrote his final poem: “Stricken while journeying/my dreams still wander about/but on withered fields.” ...

If Matsuo Basho, Japan's most well-known poet, were to retrace his 156-day-long trek through ... "When spring came and there was mist in the air, ...

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 ...

The handscroll, "Nozarashi Kiko," by Edo-era haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) ... Mie Prefecture, and went back to Edo while passing through Nara and Kyoto in west Japan.

Natagiri Pass in Tohoku sits away from Japan's popular ski trails. 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 ...

Every Japanese person knows Matsuo Basho's 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'. This classic is an account by Japan's best-loved poet of a journey he made in 1689. He visited several places famous ...

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," ...

Natagiri Pass in Tohoku sits away from Japan's popular ski trails. 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 ...

Natagiri Pass in Tohoku sits away from Japan's popular ski trails. 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, ...