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Lamplit study evoking the world of Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō

Poet · Japanese · Early Modern

Matsuo Bashō

1644–1694

Seventeen syllables and a whole season falls through them. He teaches the discipline of leaving things out.

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