Episode 18: The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Matsuo Bashō)

Explore the road and haiku with Matsuo Bashō!
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Quotations from Matsuo Bashō, “The Records of a Travel-worn Satchel, in The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, translated by Noboyuki Yuasa (New York: Penguin Books, 1966), 71, 84.

Quotation from Susan Sontag, “In Plato’s Cave,” in On Photography (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977), 10.

Matsuo Bashō portrait by Yosa Buson. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basho_by_Buson02.jpg

Photograph of Pausanias manuscript, 15th century, courtesy Katalophyromai on a CC0 1.0 license via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pausanias_Description_of_
Greece_(2).jpg

Nature scene by Bashō: Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kareeda_ni_karasu_no_tomari_keri_aki_no.jpg

Cherry blossoms photograph by Tawashi2001 on a CC BY-SA 3.0 license via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherry_blossoms_at_Isuzugawa-Tsutsumi01.jpg

Susan Sontag photograph by Lynn Gilbert, 1979 on a CC BY-SA 4.0 license via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susan_Sontag_1979_%C2%A9Lynn_
Gilbert.jpg

Thumbnail image: Matsuo Bashō. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matsuo%2BBasho.jpg

Opening and closing image from the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College, on a CC BY-SA 4.0 license via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aberms.
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Opening and closing music: “Buddy,” courtesy iMovie audio tracks

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