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    Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道, originally おくのほそ道), translated as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior, is a major work of haibun...
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    planning for another long journey, to be described in his masterwork Oku no Hosomichi, or The Narrow Road to the Deep North, culminated on May 16, 1689 (Yayoi...
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    been doubted. This diary has proven indispensable in the study of Oku no Hosomichi by Matsuo Bashō. The existence of this diary had been known and it...
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    This subgenre of haikai is known as haibun. His best-known work, Oku no Hosomichi, or Narrow Roads to the Interior, is counted as one of the classics...
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    Matsuo Bashō on one of his long journeys as recounted in his book Oku no Hosomichi. Every November the city holds a Bashō Festival. Ōgaki is located in...
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  • title is taken from a classic early 18th-century poetic travel diary Oku no Hosomichi, penned by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō. Dorrigo Evans has found...
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  • considered to be named after a quote of Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi: 是を矢立の初めとして、行く道なほ進まず (Kore o yatate no hajime toshite, Ikumichi naho susumazu) This was...
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    haiku poet Matsuo Bashō. The haiku poet Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) wrote Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) during his travels through Tōhoku...
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    the Kokinshū with his haikai (haiku) and wrote the poetic travelogue Oku no Hosomichi. The Meiji era saw the decline of traditional literary forms as Japanese...
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  • accounts during his various journeys, the most famous of which is Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Interior). Bashō's shorter haibun include compositions...
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    Bashō passed through the area on the trip that became his masterwork Oku no Hosomichi. The volcanically active area is famous for the Naruko Hot Spring Villages...
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    Moxa cream into his knees to strengthen them before embarking on his Oku no Hosomichi "Journey to the North" In both North and South Korea, mugwort – ssuk...
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    the then "far north" of Japan, which inspired his famous haibun work Oku no Hosomichi, occurred not long after Hayashi Razan categorized the Three Views...
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    Honshū that had been the inspiration for Bashō's famous travel diary, Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Interior). He published his notes from the...
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  • for modern publications of Japanese classic literature, including Oku no Hosomichi, The Tale of Genji, and The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. His most prominent...
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    the trail of the famous haiku poet Bashō (1644–1694) as described in Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Interior). He returned to Gōchuan after eight...
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    Shikoku no Michi): 1637 kilometers Shutoken Nature Trail (nicknamed Kanto Fureai no Michi): 1800 kilometers Tōhoku Nature Trail (nicknamed Shin Oku no Hosomichi):...
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    about the stone, attributed to Hiyoshi Sa'ami. It was mentioned in Oku no Hosomichi by Matsuo Bashō as he visited the stone in the 17th century and tells...
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    the kyōka poet Tawara-bō (田原坊). While Bashō did visit Matsushima in Oku no Hosomichi, its only haiku about Matsushima was written by his travel comparison...
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    far northern Honshu, Japan. Bashō tells of his visit to the site in Oku no Hosomichi. The ruins of Taga-jō and its former temple have been designated a...
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    the greatest haiku poet, was also strongly influenced by Du Fu; in Oku no Hosomichi, his masterpiece, he cites the first two lines of A Spring View (春望)...
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    poetry combining haiku with prose. It is best exemplified by his book Oku no Hosomichi, in which he used a literary genre of prose-and-poetry composition...
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  • Ucchan Hairpin) Spiral Round (Ucchan Uzumaki) Narrow road (Ucchan Oku no Hosomichi) Nanchan Zone (Stage 2) Irohazaka Horizontal Zigzag (Nanchan Irohazaka)...
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    Kisakata was uplifted by the earthquake, so Kisakata, featured in Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi, became new land and a swamp. A 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tsunami flooded 300...
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    Iwate and wrote about it in the journey described in his major work Oku no Hosomichi. He was especially inspired by the town of Hiraizumi. While the entire...
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    of Five Rings (1645), concerning military strategy; Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi (1691), a travelogue; and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's essay "In Praise of...
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    Octave Music has released a number of their albums in North America. Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道) (1981, based on the work by Matsuo Bashō) Tōno (遠野) (1982) Himekami...
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  • Deep North (miniseries), an upcoming TV miniseries based on the book Oku no Hosomichi, translated as The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a major work by Japanese...
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    practice, and involvement in human society. In particular, Bashō wrote Oku no Hosomichi, a major work in the form of a travel diary, considered "one of the...
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  • great as those between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi, as well as differences in content spanning Tanakh religious poetry...
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