Bones Bleaching in the Fields
A Pilgrimage to Kashima
Knapsack Notes
A Journey to Sarashina
The Narrow Road through the Hinterlands
The Saga Diary
Travel Writings, by Matsuo Basho, translated by Steven D. Carter, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2020
… based on the chronological order of the journeys that formed the background of the texts and not of the publication of the texts themselves. The main reason for this is that none of Bashō’s travel writings was published in his lifetime, and most of the manuscripts have such complicated textual histories that deciding the true order of their completion has seemed impossible.
A traveler—. tabibito to
that is what I shall be called. waga na yobaren
First rain showers. hatsushigure
—- Bashō, 1687
Ill on a journey, tabi ni yande
I amble in my dreams. yume wa kareno o
on withered moors. kakemeguru」
—- Bashō, 1694
