though Basho edited and revised the collection. The anthology contains his famous haiku verse: “old pond…/a frog leaps in/water’s sound” Oku no hosomichi, his greatest travel diary, told of his trip ...

Advance Preparation: Instructors will need to collect 30 haiku that will interest their students ... but every poem to that time was about the frog`s singing, but Basho`s frog is leaping. Its action ...

Chomu himself wrote Basho's life episodes, incorporating his famous haiku poems, such as "Furuike ya/ Kawazu tobikomu/ Mizu no oto" (An old pond/ a frog jumps in/ the splash of water), and travel ...

All text and haiku in the scroll were handwritten by Basho himself. He also illustrated it. Shinichi Fujita, professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Kansai University, says, “I was stunned ...