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Bashō as Bat: Wayfaring and Antistructure in the Journals of Matsuo Bashō

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

David L. Barnhill
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The japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644–94) is known in the West primarily as a haiku poet. But he was also a master of Japanese prose, both haibun (short pieces of poetic prose) and kikō (travel literature). It is in his prose, particularly his travel journals, that Bashō portrays a vision and a way of life that is profoundly religious.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , May 1990 , pp. 274 - 290
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990

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