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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 27 - Oishida

(May 28) Intending to ride down the Mogamigawa, waited at a place called Oishida for good weather. Here the seeds of old haikai sown, brought back past times and unforgotten flowers, cry of a reed-flute easing heart, gone astray trying to make both ways at once, the new and the old, no one to guide them, left them a collection of no great merit. But as far as furyu had till then come.


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