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Oku no Hosomichi
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Oku no Hosomichi, translated as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior, is a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, considered one of the major texts of
Bashō by Hokusai
Bashō by Hokusai
Bashō by Buson.
Bashō by Buson.
Bashō (right) and Sora (left) parted at Yamanaka Onsen
Bashō (right) and Sora (left) parted at Yamanaka Onsen
[Buson] Oku no Hosomichi Handscroll
[Buson] Oku no Hosomichi Handscroll
Du Fu
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Du Fu was a Chinese poet and government official of the Tang dynasty. Together with his older contemporary and friend Li Bai, he is one of the principal poets associated with Tang poetry. Nearly 1,500
Oku no Hosomichi
…its most memorable passages, Bashō suggests that "every day is a journey, and the journey itself home". The text was also influenced by the works of Du Fu, who was highly revered by Bashō. Of Oku no Hosomichi, Kenji Miyazawa once suggested, "It was as if the very soul of Japan had itself written it…
Posthumous portrait
Posthumous portrait
Du Fu's China
Du Fu's China
The statue in his Thatched Cottage, Chengdu, China
The statue in his Thatched Cottage, Chengdu, China
A calligraphic copy of Du Fu's poem "Zui Ge Xing" by Dong Qichang
A calligraphic copy of Du Fu's poem "Zui Ge Xing" by Dong Qichang