MATSUO BASHO


(1644-94)

Links to Brief Biography

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/life.html

http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/ebasho.shtml

http://www.cs.uga.edu/~kece/Personal/Poems/basho.html

http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/Nakasendo/basho.htm
 

Oku no hosomichi

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/

(This is a wonderful site created by Dr. Stephen Kohl and includes photographs of the various sights referred to in the text, discussion of the text, as well as the text itself in Japanese and in various translations.)
Text from Oku no hosomichi

http://www.lib.niigata-u.ac.jp/~saiga/oku.html

Matsuo Basho Hall

http://www.lib.niigata-u.ac.jp/~saiga/basho.html

Portraits of Basho

http://www.sumauma.net/haicai/basho-pics.html
 

Manuscript discovered

http://www.stonebridge.com/bashoms.html
 

Samples of Calligraphy

http://www.yamagata-art-museum.or.jp/EN/J-COLLEC/02.HTM
 

Recommended Reading

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/texts/basho.htm
 

Link to More Links

http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku6.htm#Basho
 
 

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