The Journey itself is home

Basho’s Journey read by David R Smith a book by David Landis Barnhill on Matsuo Basho the Japanese Haiku poet “live in tranquillity” “poverty will be my wealth” “I write to adminish myself” Tojun unruffled Lotus sutra “turning his city residence into a mountain retreat” he lived in delight “a great hermit in the middle of a city” “sporting skeletons” Saigyo’s hat of loneliness end of book