Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉; Japanese pronunciation: [ma.tsɯ.o (|) ba.ɕoː], 1644 – November 28, 1694); born Matsuo Kinsaku (松尾 金作), later known as Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa (松尾 忠右衛門 宗房) was the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku (then called hokku). He is also well known for his travel essays beginning with Records of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton (1684), written after his journey west to Kyoto and Nara. Matsuo Bashō's poetry is internationally renowned, and, in Japan, many of his poems are reproduced on monuments and traditional sites. Although Bashō is famous in the West for his hokku, he himself believed his best work lay in leading and participating in renku. As he himself said, "Many of my followers can write hokku as well as I can. Where I show who I really am is in linking haikai verses." (From Wikipedia) More about Bashō Matsuo:
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Books by Bashō Matsuo Books about Bashō Matsuo: Filed under: Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694 Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, ca. 1902), by Basil Hall Chamberlain
21 additional books about Bashō Matsuo in the extended shelves: Bashō kusen nenkō (Hakubunkan, 1929), by Sekisui Ishiko and Rinpū Sasagawa (page images at HathiTrust)
Oku no hosomichi : sono hoka Bashō-ō kikōshū (Iwanami Shoten, 1927), by Bashō Matsuo and Shōu Itō (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō Ō ekotoba den fu kushū (1903), by Chōmu, Rohan Kōda, and Bashō Matsuo (page images at HathiTrust)
Shijin Bashō. (1926), by Ragetsu Hagiwara (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō kenkyū (Bunken Shoin, 1923), by Isao Higuchi (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō haikai no konpon mondai (Iwanami Shoten, 1926), by Mizuho Ōta (page images at HathiTrust)
Kokubungaku no josetsu : yondai kokubun gakusha no hihan (Kokon Shoin, 1925), by Kiyoe Saitō (page images at HathiTrust)
Kojin o toku (Shūeikaku, 1924), by Seisensui Ogiwara (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō no renku (Seishōdō, 1926), by Isao Higuchi (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō kenkyū (Bunken Shoin, 1925), by Isao Higuchi (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō o tazunete (Shunjūsha, 1928), by Seisensui Ogiwara (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō haiku kenkyū (Iwanami Shoten, 1922), by Yoshishige Abe (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō haiku kenkyū. Zoku (Iwanami Shoten, 1924), by Yoshishige Abe (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō haiku kenkyū. Zokuzoku (Iwanami Shoten, 1926), by Yoshishige Abe (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō ron (Daiichi Shobō, 1925), by Yoné Noguchi (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō zakki (Musashino Shoin, 1928), by Saisei Muroo (page images at HathiTrust)
Matsuo Bashō (Hakubunkan, 1901), by Tanenori Kokubu (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō haiku kenkyū (Iwanami Shoten, 1922), by Yoshishige Abe (page images at HathiTrust)
Haijin Bashō (Haishodō, 1916), by Tōkichi Yamazaki (page images at HathiTrust)
Bashō to sono shūi (Shibundō Shoten, 1928), by Keion Nunami (page images at HathiTrust)
Oku no hosomichi hyōron : tsuketari Oku no hosomichi zeichu (Iwanami Shoten, 1928), by Seisensui Ogiwara and Basho Matsuo (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Bashō Matsuo: Books in the extended shelves: Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Bashō ichidaishū. (Shunjūsha, 1928), also by Shinpū Katsumine (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Bashō ichiyōshū (Kōgyokudō Shoten, 1925), also by Shinpū Katsumine, Kochū Gensō, and Bukkei Kogakuan (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Bashō kusen nenkō (Buseisha, 1911), also by Keion Nunami, Shachiku Ōno, and Sekisui Ishiko (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Bashō Ō ekotoba den fu kushū (1903), also by Chōmu and Rohan Kōda (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Bashō shichibushū renku hyō-shaku. (1922), also by Ichirō Kobayashi (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Bashō zenshū (Iwanami Shoten, 1928), also by Taseki and Keion Nunami (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Bashō zenshū (Hakubunkan, 1897), also by Ashin'an Setsujin and Rōsodō Eiki (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Bashō zenshū (Iwanami Shoten, 1921), also by Takeo Nunami (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Bashō zenshū (Nihon Meicho Zenshū Kankōkai, 1929), also by Nihon Meicho Zenshū Kankōkai (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Haikai shichibushū ōkagami (1893), also by 1760?-1837 Nanimaru (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Haikai sumidawara shū chūkai (1897), also by Rokuroku Tanahashi (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Haisei Bashō zenshū (Shūeikaku, 1924), also by Sanrō Yoshiki and Shinpū Katsumine (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Kaiōi (Kōgyokudō Shoten, 1926), also by Ragetsu Hagiwara, Sadaoki, and Katoku (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Basho, 1644-1694: Oku no hosomichi hyōron : tsuketari Oku no hosomichi zeichu (Iwanami Shoten, 1928), also by Seisensui Ogiwara (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Oku no hosomichi : sono hoka Bashō-ō kikōshū (Iwanami Shoten, 1927), also by Shōu Itō (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Shōkai kōyaku Oku no hosomichi no shin kenkyū. ([1929], 1929), also by Torasuko Ōyabu (page images at HathiTrust) Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694: Zoku-zoku Bashō haiku kenkyū. (1926), also by Mizuho Ōta and Rohan Kōda (page images at HathiTrust)
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