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OTSU--Spanning 40 meters, a three-volume picture scroll depicting the life of poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is on view in its entirety for the first time at the Otsu City Museum of History here.

ITAMI, Hyogo -- Haiku poems, correspondence and artwork by Edo period poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) have been newly discovered in several areas across Japan, a museum and library facility specializing ...

Waiting alone on the subway platform to catch a train to Brooklyn, Matthew Rohrer was thinking about how much he missed creating collaborative poetry with a particular friend, a fellow poet. In his ...

Matsuo Munefusa was born in Ueno, Iga Province, part of present‐day Mie Prefecture. One of six children, his father was a low ranking provincial samurai who made a living by teaching calligraphy.

Part of what makes Matsuo Bashōs words feel timeless is their emotional honesty. Many people today experience pressure to follow established paths in their careers, social lives and creative pursuits.

BASHO'S HAIKU: Selected Poems of Matsuo Basho, translated and with an Introduction by David Landis Barnhill. Albany: State University of New York Press, 232 pp., $23.95 (paper). Matsuo Basho ...

From left, poets Momoko Kuroda, Yasuaki Inoue, Kai Hasegawa, and Arthur Binard are seen during a talk session at "Oku no Hosomichi Summit" in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, on July 30, 2022.

This is the last haiku ever written by the 17th century Japanese poet Basho Matsuo. He dictated it from his deathbed in a rented room over a florist’s shop in the city of Osaka, in the autumn of 1694, ...

With only a few words, a Haiku master can paint a picture so vivid it's as if the reader is standing beside them — great travel writers have similar abilities. Matsuo Basho was both. “The Narrow Road ...