By 1683, his house was rebuilt and Basho returned to Edo. This began a time when Basho began to travel. In 1684, he traveled to his birthplace which resulted in the work, The Weatherbeaten Trip. He ...

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 ...

Robbie Basho is performing a wordless, seven-minute composition, “Chung Mei — The Chinese Orchid,” on an acoustic guitar. Played in a syncopated fingerstyle, the melodies flicker and clang ...