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Travel writing · 1702

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Matsuo Bashō

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Travel writing · 1702 · Japanese · 17th Century

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Matsuo Bashō

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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