The Narrow Road to Oku by Matsuo Bashō

The Narrow Road to Oku

Matsuo Bashō with Donald Keene (Translator)

nonfiction classics poetry travel adventurous reflective slow-paced

188 pages

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In the account which he named The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho makes a journey lasting 150 days, in which he travels, on foot, a distance of 600 ri.This was three hundred years ago, when the average distance covered by travelers was apparently 9 ri p...
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lighthearted 100%
relaxing 100%

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