The anthology contains his famous haiku verse: “old pond…/a frog leaps in/water’s sound” Oku no hosomichi ... still wander about/but on withered fields.” Bibliography “Matsuo Basho.” Encyclopedia of ...

OTSU--Spanning 40 meters, a three-volume picture scroll depicting the life of poet Matsuo Basho ... haiku poems, such as "Furuike ya/ Kawazu tobikomu/ Mizu no oto" (An old pond/ a frog jumps ...

Have students write haiku poems about something they feel connected to nature (as Basho did) during independent writing. Have students self assess their poems by comparing them to the criteria on the ...

KYOTO--Fukuda Art Museum in Kyoto’s Ukyo Ward announced on May 24 that it had purchased the long-missing illustrated scroll of a travelogue by the poet Matsuo ... the haiku that Basho wrote ...