The "cutting words" in this author's works are often translated as punctuation, as in a poem in which one of them precedes a (*)  "season word.
A poem by this author imagines a crow sitting "on a withered branch" in the evening. Donald Keene used the sentence "The months and days are the travelers of eternity" to open his translation of a book by this author, which lends its name to a novel about Dorrigo Evans's time in a POW camp by Australian author Richard Flanagan. The "cutting words" in this author's works are often translated as punctuation, as in a poem in which one of them precedes a (*)  "season word." This author took his pen name from the banana plant near his house. A frog leaps into an "old pond" in the best-known poem by this author of the travelogue  Narrow Road to the Deep North . For 10 points, the 5Â–7Â–5 syllable format features in the poems of what Japanese master of the  haiku  form?
A poem by this author imagines a crow sitting "on a withered branch" in the evening.
Matsuo  Bashō  [or Matsuo Chūemon  Munefusa ] 