Weekly Basho Posts

I’m going to be posting a weekly Basho haiku on the blog here each Monday in 2018. I’ve sampled these few poems from a book of his complete haiku translated and edited by Jane Reichhold. It’s a great book with a lot of supplementary material as well. If there are errors in the Japanese transcriptions I’m placing below her English translations (or errors in the English, for that matter) it is entirely my fault and not hers and they probably crept in while I was typing the posts. If something seems off, drop me a line using the contact form below on the right. Rest assured, your e-mail will only be used for possibly e-mailing you back and for selling to Russian hackers. Hope you enjoy them.