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The meaning of the frog and old pond haiku poem by Matsuo Basho

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The fact of the most famous haiku poem in Japan. The most famous haiku poem of the most famous haiku poet in Japan.   古池や　蛙飛び込む　水の音 The old pond A frog leaps in. Sound of the water.   It’s a very simple poem. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) composed it at a haiku gathering in 1686 when he […]

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Best 10 famous Matsuo Basho’s haiku poems in English and Japanese

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Matsuo Basho’s famous haiku poems Portrait of Matsuo Basho from “Hokusai Manga”, by Katsushika Hokusai   Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) made about 1000 haiku poems through the lifetime, traveling around Japan. His writing “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” is the most famous haiku collection in Japan. Among the haiku poems, I would like to

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