While their days were spent walking, in the evenings they often socialized and wrote with students and friends who lived along their route. His most well-known haibun, Oku no Hosomichi, or The Narrow Road to the Deep North, recounts the last long walk he completed with his disciple Sora-1,200 miles covered over five months beginning in May 1689. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), the legendary Japanese haiku master of the 17 th century, also wrote haibun, a literary form combining prose and haiku. Haiku master and writer, Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
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