For Andrew Fitzsimons, translating Matsuo Basho’s haiku was both a physical and internal journey. During his quest to render Basho’s complete works into English, the Tokyo-based writer and professor ...

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.

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 dealer in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

IGA, Mie -- A mushroomlike structure here commemorates the 300th anniversary of the birth of haiku master Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), with its roof designed to look like a hat worn by the traveling poet ...

Follow in the footsteps of a haiku master on a walking tour of the untouched Japanese countryside. Story and photography by Peter Neville-Hadley , Japanese poet Matsuo Basho - master of the ...