Basho entered into the service of a local ruling military house where he befriended the young heir, who enjoyed linked verse. Together they studied with Kitamura Kigin, one of the leading poets of the ...

Students will develop an understanding of Basho, the man and the poet, as a prominent figure in Japanese literature. Students will experience Japanese poetry through haiku. Standard 1. Students know ...

In Japan, the simple act of walking has long been connected to working toward enlightenment.

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 Basho (1644-1694) from an art ...

Basho was born in 1940 ... Robinson Jr. in a nod to the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō and, after college, relocated to California, where his musical appetite had grown to include ...

“I have a love for China, Japan,” he told one radio interviewer, “the Islamic thing, the American Indian …” To confine himself was just not Basho’s way. His voice (which Fahey called ...

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô 16441694 the spiritual father of haiku poetry A monk portraying the poet journeys through Japan following Bashôs journal and ...

“poems with a zest for everything.” In her most recent book, The Narrow Road to the Interior, Hahn adapts the ancient Japanese artistic technique of zuihitsu (“running brush”), to create, as Marilyn ...