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- Oku no Hosomichi - 奥の細道 - おくのほそ道
The Narrow Road to the Deep North -

Narrow road to the interior
Back Roads To Far Towns

source with haiku :　basho/footmark

In 1689 - 元禄2年3月27日 - 9月6日

He leaves for "Oku no Hosomichi"奥の細道
on the 27th day of the 3rd lunar month and reaches Ogaki
on the 6th day of the 9th lunar month.

The dates for the Gregorian calendar are given with varying dates,
starting from May 6 to May 24.

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Road measurements are given in ri　理.
1 ri - 36 choo　町　- about 3,9 km.
Most official roads of the Edo period had a stone marker and tree on a mound at each ri.

ichirizuka 一里塚 mound at each RI
(equivalent of a milestone)

These mounds were a mark for a restplace, travelers could rest in the shade of the tree.
Usually they were pine (sugi　杉 or matsu　松), or
. enoki 榎 nettletree, Chinese hackberry tree . .

Basho's trip took 600 Ri in 150 days,
about 2400 kilometers of walking.

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. Oku no Hosomichi - NHK 2007 .

. Was Basho a ninja or onmitsu spy? .
Onmitsu : Oku no Hosomichi 隠密 - 奥の細道
Sora, Kawai Sora 河合曾良

奥 OKU - what does this stand for?
. Michinoku, Mutsu 陸奥 region in Tohoku .

Basho traveled to the Tohoku region, where he had less friends than in Kansai, but could visit places in memory of
. Priest Saigyo Hoshi 西行法師 .
and
. Priest Noin Hoshi 能因法師 (Nooin Hooshi)　 .
(988-1051)

. - His outfit as a traveler in the Edo time - . 　　

with 23 pairs
source : www.yumekougei.com

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蕪村筆「奥の細道画巻」
Paintings by Yosa Buson
- Reference with paintings -

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The first poem of the trip begins with

yuku haru 行く春 spring is ending

The last poem ends with

yuku aki 行秋 autumn is ending

This shows Basho's keen appreciation of the seasons.

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In the actual journey that Basho took in the spring of 1689, he had extremely limited success in finding new disciples in Michinoku.
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Basho, in short, made no significant new contacts in the northeast, the original destination of the journey, and his style and school did not take root in this area (Yamagata).
By contrast, Dewa and the area facing the Japanese Sea, particularly the Shonai region (northwest Yamagata. . .) and the Hokuriku area - Echigo, Etchu, Kaga and Echizen (Fukui) - proved to be a haikai goldmine.
Although Basho had almost no connections in the Shonai region, he encountered a number of young and talented poets:
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- Shirane, Traces of Dreams, page 250
source : books.google.co.jp

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Kuniharu Shimizu
source : tfship.net/bookstore

西本鶏介

天野吉則 Amano paintings on the way

芦原伸
taking the train, Basho on my weekends
CLICK for more samples of Japanese books !

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Oku no Hosomichi - Karuta 奥の細道かるた

Basho karuta -
study your culture
while you play

. WKD : HAIKU KARUTA .

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Basho speaks paradoxically about how the gods have motivated his decision to travel.
He refers to two types of gods.

The first is Sozorogami, the other are the Dosojin　道祖神.

Vom Kofferpacken und dem Gott des Fernwehs.

sozorogami そぞろ神 / そヾろ神 / 漫ろ神
suzurugami すずろがみ / 漫神
sowasowa no kami　そわそわの神
. WKD : Aruki-gami 歩行神 God of Wandering .

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"Unfortunately, Japanese haiku loses a lot in translation ... "

おくのほそ道: Oku No Hosomichi - Professor Donald Keene
- source : http://books.google.co.jp

Narrow Road to the Interior:
And Other Writings
Bashō Matsuo, Sam Hamill

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Oku no Hosomichi - Haiku and Senryu
おくのほそ道・俳句・川柳
田中貴子

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External LINKS - ENGLISH

Notes to the transalations
source : terebess.hu/english

Barnhill, David Landis Barnhill
Basho's Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho - 2005
- source : books.google.co.jp

Britton, Dorothy Britton (1941 - September 16, 2014)
- source : http://books.google.co.jp

Cid Corman and Kamaike Susumu
Back Roads To Far Towns:
Basho's Travel Journal (Companions for the Journey)
- Full Text - PDF file -

Sato, Hiroaki Sato - Bashō's Narrow Road: Spring & Autumn Passages : Two Works
- source : http://books.google.co.jp

Yuasa, Nobuyuki Yuasa
Matsuo Basho's "Narrow Road to the Deep North"
with extensive literature links
source : terebess.hu/english

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Chilcott, Translation - bilingual by Dr Tim Chilcott
source : Simply Haiku

Utamakura: Storied Places
Bashō’s Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Roads of Oku)
with google map and all !
source : Dennis Kawaharada

Oku no hosomichi - Wikipedia
With a long list of all the publications, books etc.
source : en.wikipedia.org

Oku no Hosomichi - Wiki Travel
Narrow Road to the Deep North
source : http://wikitravel.org/en/Narrow_Road

- Further Reference -

Basho in Akita Prefecture　秋田県
source : Akita International Haiku Network

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JAPANESE

The Text of Basho's Oku no hosomichi
source : etext.virginia.edu

Detailed Itinerary with all the dates and distances
source : itoyo/basho/okunohosomichi

Translation into modern Japanese - Rodoku
with sound track to listen to roodoku　おくのほそ道」の朗読
source : hosomichi.roudokus.com

source :　www.e-hon.ne.jp

神社仏閣一覧 shrines and temples visited during Oku no Hosomichi
source : komichan/tanbou

みちのくの足跡
source : www.bashouan.com

おくのほそ道芭蕉・曽良句集 - with beautiful images
source : www.bashouan.com kushuu

私の芭蕉紀行 - 私の「おくのほそ道」
source : intweb.co.jp/miura

walking along, drawing paintings . . .
source : hide-tabi.blog

- Further Reference - おくのほそ道

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External LINKS - DEUTSCH - GERMAN

Auf schmalen Pfaden durchs Hinterland
Geza S. Dombrady and Ekkehard May - Dieterich’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Mainz 1985
(Vollstaendiger Text)
http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp

Bashô (1644 - 1694) und sein Tagebuch "Oku no Hosomichi"
Hans Ueberschaar
source : books.google.co.jp

Landschaft und Erinnerung: Zu Bashōs Oku no Hosomichi
Robert F. Wittkamp
- - - - - mit Holzschnittbildern aus dem Bashō-ō Ekotoba-den
source : deutsche-ostasienstudien.de

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source : www.yasudaya-kagu.com

Paper Umbrella with Basho and Sora
wagasa from Gifu 和傘 - 岐阜

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. Enpitsu de Oku no Hosomichi - えんぴつで奥の細道 .
Tracing the Narrow Road to the Deep North with a Pencil

. Oku no Hosomichi - NHK 2007 .

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Izakaya Oku no Hosomichi 居酒屋おくのほそ道 - 太田和彦, 村松誠 -

. Sake no Hosomichi のほそ道 "The Narrow Roads of Ricewine".
Manga by Razuweru Hosoki ラズウェル細木 Rozwell Hosoki

Mochi no Hosomichi　もちの細道 in Memory of Basho
. Mochi Rice Cakes　餅　 .

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Novel by Richard Flanagan

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Roger Pulvers
The time line of Richard Flanagan’s new novel, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” slips back and forth from prewar Tasmania, Melbourne and Adelaide to postwar Sydney, among other locations. Yet there is only one stark, unrelenting and everlasting present — “the Line,” the 415-km-long Burma-Thailand railway that was built between June 1942 and October 1943 by more than 300,000 prisoners of war under the command of the Japanese. One in three prisoners’ lives was lost on that arch-brutal forced march. Of those who perished, 90 percent were Asian, primarily Burmese and Malayans, but also Chinese, Tamils, Thais and Javanese. Nearly 3,000 Australians were among those killed. Richard Flanagan’s father was one of the lucky POWs who survived.
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This being a newspaper published in Japan, it seems appropriate to mention that some of the haiku appearing in the novel are badly mistranslated. (The novel’s title comes from Basho’s classic and, as such, haiku play a key role in the narrative.)

The translation of Issa’s haiku about “the world of dew” that forms a chapter heading in the novel renders kenka as “struggle,” when what the poet means here is “quarrel.” Issa was commenting on a dispute of inheritance he had with his family. “Struggle” might be more meaningful in the context of wartime suffering, but it’s not what the original expresses and it sends the wrong signals.

The first chapter of the novel is preceded by Basho’s haiku about a bee emerging from the depths of a peony. The translation used has the bee “staggering out” of the peony, while in the original, from “Nozarashi Kikō,” tells us that the bee is coming out of the flower not staggering but with reluctant regret. Basho (the bee) is expressing gratitude to his hosts who took such good care of him on the road, telling them how sad he is to leave them.
- source : /www.japantimes.co.jp - November 2013

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kojiki no yo 乞食の世　 "A Beggar's world"
. Travels by Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶　.

. WKD : Calendar Systems .

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30/11/2012

Oku no Hosomichi