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Relatedly, there is a lovely series of photos here taken on what is referred to as Basho’s Trail, a path the poet walked while writing his “masterpiece, Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Far North), a travel narrative combining haiku with descriptions of the places and people he meets on a 1,200-mile journey through northern Honshu in 1689.”
