Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Kinsaku, known as Bashō, was born in 1644 near Ueno, in Iga Province. As a young man he entered the service of Tōdō Yoshitada, who shared his taste for haikai, a service that ended in 1666. Around 1672 he settled in Edo to devote himself to poetry. In 1680 his disciples built him a hut at Fukagawa and planted a banana tree, bashō in Japanese, in the yard, from which he took his pen name. He then undertook several long journeys and died in Ōsaka in 1694, of a stomach illness.

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• PoetryThe Narrow Road to the Deep North奥の細道Matsuo Bashō · 1702Literature