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Matsuo Basho
Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694 / Iga Province / Japan)
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Bashō was born Matsuo Kinsaku around 1644, somewhere near Ueno in Iga Province. His father may have been a low-ranking samurai, which would have .. more >>
42 poems of Matsuo Basho
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1      A bee
2      A caterpillar
3      A cicada shell
4      A cool fall night
5      A field of cotton
6      A monk sips morning tea
7      A snowy morning
8      Autumn moonlight
9      Awake at night
10      Bitter–tasting ice —
11      Blowing stones
12      Bush warbler
13      Cold night: the wild duck
14      Collection of Six Haiku
15      Coolness of the melons
16      Don't imitate me
17      First day of spring
18      First snow
19      First winter rain
20      Fleas, lice
        
 

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Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black (11/16/2008 3:19:00 PM)
How much can be said in so little words.I'm glad I finally discovered who wrote and invented the haiku.Thank you.I wrote some haiku based on THE OLD POND haiku-which is this poet's most famous.
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  Matsuo Basho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matsuo Basho (?? ???, 1644 – November 28, 1694) was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Basho was recognized for his ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D


  Basho's Life
Basho and his Narrow Road to the Deep North. The master haiku Poet Matsuo Basho by Makoto Ueda, Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1970. ...
http://www.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/life.html


  Basho Matsuo
Analysis of the haiku poet's writing and importance.
http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/ebasho.shtml


  Biography of Basho
Biography of the 17th-century Japanese poet and selections of his haiku and haibun.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/5022/bashobio.html


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  "Refinement's origin:
the remote north country's
rice-planting song."
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).
 
  "Clouds now and again
give a soul some respite from
moon-gazing—behold."
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).

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