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Basho: "On the Narrow Road to the Deep North" by Lesley Downer


Doing things out of chronological sequence as I frequently do. Have just finished “On The Narrow Road To The Deep North” by Lesley Downer, a re-creation in 1989 of a journey made 300 years previously by Matsuo Basho, and I have now started on the latter, being the original.

Basho was a traveller and poet whose Haiku (17 syllable poems) made him nationally famous in seventeenth century Japan and whose travels provide an insight both into urban and remote rural life in the country during that period.