Timeline
Lifetime:
1644 -
1694
Passed: ≈
330 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Matsuo Bashō
Books by Matsuo Bashō
おくのほそ道 (Oku no Hosomichi)
Poetry
Memoir
Non-Fiction
Travel
Nature
Travel
Journey
Japan
Buddhism
Landscape
Poetry
Spiritual
Wanderlust
Haiku
Waka
Zen
Edo Period
Oku
Northern Japan
Foot Travel
Oku no Hosomichi (meaning Narrow Road to Oku [the Deep North]) is a major work by Matsuo Bashō.Oku no Hosomichi was written based on a journey taken by Bashō in the late spring of 1689. He and his traveling companion Sora departed from Edo (modern-da...