Summit in Clouds (navku440)

the sixth month – with clouds laid on its summit Mount-Arashi Matsuo Basho (1644 – 1694) In his late twenties, Basho moved to Edo (now Tokyo), where he joined the local active poetry community: he started writing under the name Basho after he received a basho tree from one of his students. Basho wrote in a particular form called Haibun, a fusion of haiku and prose: his most famous haibun collection is The Narrow Road to the Interior.