Matsuo Bashō's most famous haiku
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: The old pond — a frog jumps in, the sound of water · The months and days are travellers of a hundred ages; the years that come and go are travellers too · Even my grass hut will change hands — now a house of dolls. (Updated May 3, 2021.)
From 'The old pond' to his death poem: Bashō's best-known haiku and the opening of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, with the travel journal or collection each comes from.
Automatically translated (original in 日本語). See the original
Top 12
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The old pond — a frog jumps in, the sound of water
Kawazu-awase (1686). The haiku everyone associates with Bashō.
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The months and days are travellers of a hundred ages; the years that come and go are travellers too
Opening of The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
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Even my grass hut will change hands — now a house of dolls
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, setting out.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of warriors' dreams
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, at Hiraizumi.
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Such stillness — the cicadas' cry seeps into the rocks
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, at Risshaku-ji.
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Gathering the rains of early summer — how swift the Mogami River
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, on the Mogami River.
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The rough sea — stretching out towards Sado, the Milky Way
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, in Echigo.
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Sick on a journey, my dreams go wandering over withered fields
His last poem, regarded as his death verse (1694).
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Deep autumn — my neighbour, what does he do?
One of his last poems (1694).
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Coming along the mountain path — somehow so lovely, wild violets
Journal of Bleached Bones in a Field.
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This road — no one walks along it, autumn dusk
A late poem (1694).
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On a withered branch a crow has settled — autumn evening
One of his early signature poems.
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