“This Road” by Matsuo Bashō

Japanese poet Bashō composed the following haiku during the fall of 1694, not long before his death.

Alone on this road,
Not a single passerby—
Autumn night descends.

—Translated by David Bowles, July 2013


Original Japanese

kono michi ya
yuku hito nashi ni
aki no kure

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