The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Matsuo Munefusa
- First Published: 1694
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Haiku
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Poetry or poets, Beauty, Asia or Asians, Seventeenth century, Pilgrims or pilgrimages, Japan or Japanese people, Samurai
- Locales: Japan
Critical Evaluation:
Matsuo Bashō combines his talents as a poet and essayist in the writing of the poetic diary, a form of literature that was prized highly at the time that Bashō lived. Bashō, incidentally, is a nickname meaning “banana tree.” He had been called Kinsaku as a child and Matsuo Munefusa when he became an adult. When Bashō first began writing poetry, he called himself Sobo, and later on, for about eight years, he took the name Tosei. However, planted in the garden near one of Bashō’s residences was a banana plant whose wide leaves Bashō especially...
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