Presents Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho's epic account of his five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo.
Tells about the travels of seventeenth-century Japanese poet, Basho, and features selections of his haiku poems, and examples of the characters of the Japanese language.
Tricked by a fox into giving up his share of cherries, a famous Japanese poet is inspired to write a haiku and the fox, ashamed of his actions, must devise another trick to set things right.
