The Narrow Road to the Deep North
In 1689 Bashō sells his house and sets out on foot with one companion for the northern provinces, stopping at temples, battlefields and poets' graves. Five months of roads, lodgings and weather are kept in prose that gives way to haiku wherever the country outruns it. Travel record and poetry welded into a single form.
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- alludes to ↑ The Tale of the Heike
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