C20: from Japanese
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Kyushu Basho in Fukuoka from Nov. 8-22 moved to Tokyo.
From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2020
Alvin Ailey is too, as are Bach, Basho, the Brontës, Hemingway, Faulkner, Kahlil Gibran, Michelangelo and 361 others, all cataloged in “The Gazetteer and Atlas of Astronomy.”
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2015
The downtown L.A. museum this week unveiled a new mural by Katie Yamasaki that includes a haiku by Basho, a poet of the Edo era.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2014
For example, Matsuo Basho, the greatest haiku poet, wrote before his death in 1694:
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
The Joei Shikimoku is not a voluminous document: it contains only fifty-one brief articles, which the poet Basho compares to the luminosity of the full moon.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
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