Bashō as Bat: Wayfaring and Antistructure in the Journals of Matsuo Bashō

Abstract

The japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644–94) is known in the West primarily as a haiku poet. But he was also a master of Japanese prose, bothhaibun(short pieces of poetic prose) andkikō(travel literature). It is in his prose, particularly his travel journals, that Bashō portrays a vision and a way of life that is profoundly religious.

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