One of this man's poems reflects on an octopus looking at the moon, while he also wrote a work of comparative literary criticism of two poets in which he judges the poems and chooses the winner, which is titled after a children's game. His early work
One of this man's poems reflects on an octopus looking at the moon, while he also wrote a work of comparative literary criticism of two poets in which he judges the poems and chooses the winner, which is titled after a children's game. His early works, such as "Green Peach", were written as an homage to Li Po. This author of "Record of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton" and "The Seashell Game" also wrote a fictionalized account of his travels with his companion Sora from Edo to Oku, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. The author of a poem about a frog jumping into an ancient pond, for 10 points, identify this Edo period master of haiku, whose penname comes from the plantain tree.
One of this man's poems reflects on an octopus looking at the moon, while he also wrote a work of comparative literary criticism of two poets in which he judges the poems and chooses the winner, which is titled after a children's game.
Matsuo {Basho}