Four years ago, the Kyoto National Museum reinstituted its annual series foregrounding the Chinese zodiac animals. It now celebrates China’s Year of the Pig — Japan’s Year of the Boar (inoshishi).

Basho was born in 1940 ... Robinson Jr. in a nod to the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō and, after college, relocated to California, where his musical appetite had grown to include ...

— Matsuo Basho Step into the world of Payanam, Anavila’s latest textile collection, where tradition meets modernity against ...

KYOTO--Fukuda Art Museum in Kyoto’s Ukyo Ward announced on May 24 that it had purchased the long-missing illustrated scroll of a travelogue by the poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) from an art ...

Approaching the absolute tranquility of Risshaku-ji, a mountain temple in Yamagata, Matsuo Basho penned this poem in mid-July 1689: shizukasa ya iwa ni shimi iru semi no koe (piercing the silence ...

Matsuo Munefusa was born in Ueno, Iga Province, part of present‐day Mie Prefecture. One of six children, his father was a low ranking provincial samurai who made a living by teaching calligraphy.