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Matsuo Bashō was born in 1644, near Ueno, in Iga Province. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Matsuo family was of samurai descent, and his father was probably a musokunin ( 無足人 ) , a class of landowning peasants granted certain privileges of samurai.
Bashō by Hokusai. Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道, originally おくのほそ道), translated as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior, is a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, considered one of the major texts of Japanese literature of the Edo period. [1]
Kikaku set the tone for haikai from Basho death until the time of Yosa Buson in the late 18th century [2] He also left an important historical document, describing Bashō's final days, and the immediate aftermath of his death, which has been translated into English.
Nozarashi Kikō (野ざらし紀行), variously translated as The Records of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton or Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones, is the first travel journal haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō. Written in the summer of 1684, the work covers Bashō's journey.
Kagami Shikō (各務 支考, 1665 – 14 March 1731), often known by the mononym Shikō, was a Japanese haiku poet of the early Edo period, known as one of Matsuo Bashō's Ten Eminent Disciples (蕉門十鉄, Shōmon juttetsu) [2] and the originator of the Shishimon school (or Mino school) of poetry. [1]
An 88-year-old former boxer has been found not guilty in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder in Japan, ending his ordeal as the longest-serving death row inmate ever.
The Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum (山寺芭蕉記念館, Yamadera Bashō Kinenkan) is a biographical museum in Yamagata, Japan. It is located near the Yamadera temple, where poet Matsuo Bashō visited in 1689 during his travels that were chronicled in Oku no Hosomichi ( The Narrow Road to the Deep North ).
The only woman on death row in Oklahoma could get a new chance to challenge her murder conviction, following a Supreme Court ruling in her favor on claims she was sex-shamed during her trial.