Travel writing · 1702
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Matsuo Bashō
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Travel writing · 1702 · Japanese · 17th Century
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Prose and haiku from a walking pilgrimage through northern Japan.
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The old pond frog is famous; the road is greater — Bashō makes travel a spiritual grammar in which each place earns exactly seventeen syllables.
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