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Basho and his Narrow Road to the Deep North

From Back Roads to Far Towns
by Cid Corman and Kamaike Susume, Grossman Publishers, 1968.

Station 25 - Obanazawa

(May 17-26) At Obanazawa visited a man called Seifu. Well-to-do but not a petty mind. And from frequent trips to Miyako well appreciates how wayfarers feel, had us stay many days to rest up after being so much on the go, entertained us in a host of ways.

cool
being right at home
spr-rawling
come on out
from under the worm room
croaker
the eyebrow brush
so resembling
safflower
silkworm tending
folk antique
in mode
(Sora)


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