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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. [8] [6] Little is known of his childhood. The Matsuo were a major ninja family, and Bashō was trained in ...
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] The first edition was published posthumously in 1702. [2]
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 original hope of Basho had been to see the cherry blossoms of Shiogama, Miyagi ; however, this was almost impossible, taking Basho's health into account. Sora was appointed to be Basho's travelling companion, and studied the places of previously composed famous Japanese tankas. This made this journey successful. [27]
Pages in category "Works by Matsuo Bashō" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K.
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Gichū-ji (義仲寺) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in the Baba neighborhood of the city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.Its honzon is a statue of Shō-Kannon Bosatsu.It contains the grave of the late Heian period warlord Kiso Yoshinaka and the Edo period poet Matsuo Basho.
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