Where did haiku come from? Originally, there was a longer poem called a renga or linked ... Frogs are a common subject of Japanese poetry, but every poem to that time was about the frog`s singing, but ...

Chomu himself wrote Basho's life episodes, incorporating his famous haiku poems, such as "Furuike ya/ Kawazu tobikomu/ Mizu no oto" (An old pond/ a frog jumps in/ the splash of water), and travel ...

All text and haiku in the scroll were handwritten by Basho himself. He also illustrated it. Shinichi Fujita, professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Kansai University, says, “I was stunned ...