Matsuo Basho's Narrow Road Posthumously Published
1694
Three years after the wandering poet's death, Matsuo Basho's masterwork Oku no Hosomichi - The Narrow Road to the Deep North - appeared in its final form. Part travelogue, part meditation on impermanence, its spare haiku and luminous prose elevated a walking tour through rural Japan into one of the great spiritual journeys in world literature.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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