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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