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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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    Sora's Diary (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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