wide road of the exterior

Folder: 
2025

 

(wide road to the exterior)

 

Culture continues

in all corners of the globe

Summer showers’ song


1693

 

Maruyama keep

Yoshitsune’s long sword shines

in poor wretched place

 

Benkei’s lone defence

Summer grass remains today

Sepuku farewell

 

Back wood canopy

Over swollen river flows

Mogami boat ride

 

Teary eyed vista 

Yudono’s vertical drop

words cannot describe

 

Matsuo Basho

Iga Ueno’s bright star

home of the ninja

 

Sixteen ninety four

masterpiece now completed

Basho leaves this earth




Author's Notes/Comments: 

scattered pieces and thoughts of the last year of Basho's life, walking 156 days through the interior of northern Japan. 

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