This paper is behind a paywall. For those unfamiliar with Matsuo Bashō, he’s considered Japan’s most famous poet from the Edo period and Japan’s greatest master of haiku according to his Wikipedia ...

Donald Keene's journey tracing the footsteps of haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in Basho's masterpiece ...

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.

Japan’s most celebrated poet, writing in the 17th century under the name of Matsuo Basho, found his truest home on the road. Sleeping on a grass pillow, seeking out auspicious places from which ...

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.

The themes of grief and healing are at the heart of the Japan-set Filipino film “Kono Basho,” one of the full-length entries in the ongoing 20th edition of the Cinemalaya Philippine ...

These Japanese cities may inspire your next haiku Turns out haiku doesn’t need to have three lines—and other things you might learn on a tour of Japan’s historic poetry sites.

Related to the concept of ma in Japanese visual arts, which perceives empty space in an artwork as a positive entity, the negative space in haiku is a way in to the contemplative experience of the ...

The narrow road to the deep north suitably unfolds like an epic poem. Up mossy steps and down cedar-shaded tracks we flow, fluid as the verse written by 17th-century haiku master Matsuo Basho ...

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