A review by scipio_africanus
Oku No Hosomichi: The Narrow Road to the Interior by Matsuo Bashō

3.0

Its alright. Can appreciate it as a cultural work, but not super interesting as a travel memoir. Some golden gems intermixed within as far as haiku go, but more prose than poetry. Worth a read for people who are interested in Basho and Japan, but it's def not for everyone.

Pitifully - under
a great soldier’s empty helmet,
a cricket sings

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Summer grasses:
all that remains of great soldiers
imperial dreams

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Lonely stillness--
a single cicada’s cry
sinking into stone