Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉
haiku poet · Edo Japan · 1644–1694
The poet who raised the seventeen-syllable haiku into an art. After forty he gave up his house and lived on the road.
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The months and days are travellers of eternity, and the years that come and go are voyagers too.
月日は百代の過客にして、行き交ふ年もまた旅人なり。Oku no hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), the first sentence
October 1694 · At an inn in Osaka, four days before he died
Sick on a journey, my dreams go wandering over withered fields.
旅に病んで夢は枯れ野をかけめぐるHis last haiku
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