He ultimately wrote 14 poems “with” Basho, Buson and Issa, which make up the third section of “Surrounded By Friends,” Rohrer’s new collection, which will be released April 7.

Basho had spent the 10 years before his death as a kind of wandering poet-priest, crisscrossing Japan on foot at a time when travel was dangerous -- the roads little more than mud tracks through ...

Lovers of Japanese poetry will surely line up to purchase Enpitsu de Oku no Hosomichi DS, a Nintendo DS version of the famous collection of poems by Basho. The idea is that you can "read" the ...

As Bradfield explains in her introduction, she was drawn to the Japanese form known as haibun, invented by the poet Basho in 1682, and adapted it for her purposes. Basho, ...

Ultimately, Basho achieved success with his writing. Linked verse poetry anthologies sold well, and Basho’s poetry was often in them. Within eight years, he was asked to judge linked‐verse contests ...

Lesson Title:Exploring Haiku through Basho and the FoxBy:Lynn Hannapel, Wendy Durst, Kelly Hirneisen, and Nancy KelsoObjective:Students will develop an understanding of Basho, the man and the poet, as ...

The poet-traveler may be familiar to lovers of Matsuo Basho, but for most, the Japanese way of travel writing diverts from well-trodden paths. Travels with a Writing Brush, by Meredith McKinney ...

OTSU--Spanning 40 meters, a three-volume picture scroll depicting the life of poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is on view in its entirety for the first time at the Otsu City Museum of History here.

"I think we are almost inevitably going to see a high YouTube art form develop, the way the 17 th century poet Basho took this game - 17 syllable poems - and took his attention as a poet and human ...

Cid Corman, 79, an American poet and translator who lived in Japan for nearly 40 years, died Friday at a hospital in Kyoto after a heart attack.