Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones
Setting out west from Edo in the autumn of 1684 with nothing settled about coming back, the traveller opens by accepting that his bones may be left to whiten in a field, and passes an abandoned child crying beside the Fuji river without picking it up. The road runs to Ise, to the house at Ueno where his mother's lock of white hair is brought out, then Yoshino, Ōgaki and Nagoya, the prose giving way to a hokku wherever the ground demands one. First of the travel journals, and the book in which the mixed form of prose and verse he later took to its limit is worked out.
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