Matsuo Bashō
1644 – 1694 · Japan · Literature
Perfected haiku and the travel journal in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
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- Du Fu
712 – 770 · Literature
Bashō's travel poetics quote and answer Du Fu's wartime landscapes.
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