Matsuo Basho Goes on a Journey on May 16,1689
(Sekiguchi in Bunkyo-ward, Tokyo)

Matsuo Basho, haiku poet left Edo (the old name for Tokyo) on May 16, 1689. (Mar.27 according to the then calender), because he was strongly tempted to make on a wandering journey. Basho made a lot of haiku (short poem in a fixed form) while he traveled from Edo to the Tohoku region and down to Western Japan covering about 2400km. The photo shows a place where Basho lived between 1677 and 1680. He was supervising a repair work on the Kanda river at that time.

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