This, explains Daisetsu T. Suzuki (1870-1966) in "Zen and Japanese Culture," is how Japan's most famous haiku came to be written: Matsuo Basho (1644-94), samurai-born but a rootless wanderer most ...

Matsuo Basho. 1644‐1694. Matsuo Munefusa was born in Ueno, Iga Province, part of present‐day Mie Prefecture. One of six children, his father was a low ranking provincial samurai who made a living by ...

Do you know haiku? It's an ancient Japanese poetry form. ... Here's a 17th-century example by the venerable Basho Matsuo: An old silent pond ... A frog jumps into the pond. splash!

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･･･ ...

The accompanying 1830s woodcut print is the image of the great haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), rendered by Hasegawa Settan (1778-1843). Depicting a legendary scene in which the poet was ...

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 ...

ITAMI, Hyogo -- Haiku poems, correspondence and artwork by Edo period poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) have been newly discovered in several areas across ...

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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.

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.