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 ...

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.

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 -- An art museum in this west Japan city announced May 24 that it has rediscovered a handscroll containing illustrations and haiku rendered by 17th century poet Matsuo Basho, known as his first ...

In the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in northern Honshu on March 11, people from all around the world turned to a traditional form of poetry to express their emotions and condolences ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Above: If you’ve got mad Matsuo Bashō skills, you could be the proud owner of a baggie of ghost ramp rubble. Via SR 520 Twitter. Seattle loves giving out bits of public landmarks in exchange for poems ...