The Narrow Road to Oku by Masayuki Miyata, Donald Keene, Matsuo Bashō

The Narrow Road to Oku

Masayuki Miyata, Donald Keene, Matsuo Bashō

188 pages first pub 1702 (editions)

nonfiction poetry travel reflective relaxing slow-paced
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In the account which he named The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho makes a journey lasting 150 days, in which he travels, on foot, a distance of 600 ri. This was three hundred years ago, when the average distance covered by travelers was apparently 9 ri ...

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