A walking tour following Japan’s Basho trail - video

The giant Torii gate at Oyo no Hara near Hongu Taisha Shrine. Sarah Madden

Japan Walking Trails

Japan Walking Trails
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Richard and Sarah Madden are following the route that Basho and his fellow poet and diarist Sora took in 1689, visiting the ancient sites they saw. The route, from Tokyo (then called Edo) north to Matsushima on the Sea of Japan and then inland over the mountains and down the west coast to the old imperial capital of Kyoto, stretched for a distance of about 2,500 kilometres and took them 156 days to complete.