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Matsuo Basho
(1644 - 1694 / Iga Province / Japan)
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Bashō was born Matsuo Kinsaku around 1644, somewhere near Ueno in Iga Province. His father may have been a low-ranking samurai, which would have promised Bashō a career in the military but not much chance of a notable life. It was traditionally claimed by biographers that he worked in the .. .. more >>
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1     A Ball of Snow
2     A bee
3     A caterpillar
4     A cicada shell
5     A cold rain starting
6     A cool fall night
7     a cuckoo cries
8     A field of cotton
9     A man infirm
10     A monk sips morning tea
11     A snowy morning
12     a strange flower
13     A weathered skeleton
14     A wild sea
15     An Old Pond
16     As they begin to rise again
17     Autumn moonlight
18     Awake at night
19     Basho's Death Poem
20     Bitter–tasting ice —
21     Blowing stones
22     Bush warbler
23     bush-clover flowers
24     But for a woodpecker
25     Chilling autumn rains
 

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