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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yamanaka, Japan–During his 156-day trek around northern Honshu, celebrated haiku poet Matsuo Basho was constantly on the move. But he and his companion Kawai Sora couldn’t resist the charms of the hot ...

Tohoku is Japan's "deep north," through which the famous Zen monk and haiku poet Matsuo Basho walked in 1689, writing one of the most famous travelogues in world literature, "Oku no Hosomichi (The ...

AI shows potential in creating literary art rivaling that of humans without human help. AI-generated haiku without human intervention was compared with a contrasting method. The evaluators found it ...

Standard 1. Students read and understand a variety of materials. Standard 5. Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Standard 2. Students know physical and human ...

Like many who have gone to Basho Cafe, I assumed the name alluded to the famous Japanese haiku poet who limned images such as this: “O bush warblers!/Now you’ve sh — all over/my rice cake on the porch ...

Like many who have gone to Basho Cafe, I assumed the name alluded to the famous Japanese haiku poet who limned images such as this: “O bush warblers!/Now you’ve sh — all over/my rice cake on the porch ...