SEQUIM — Wendy Feltham, Port Townsend photographer and amateur naturalist, will present “In Basho’s Footsteps: Traveling Through Japan in Cherry Blossom Season” on Thursday — the final event of the ...

It was in late 1955 that Donald Keene, a scholar of Japanese literature, first traveled through Japan's Tohoku region retracing the steps of the Edo p･･･ ...

Cherry blossoms are seen in full bloom on the grounds of Yamadera temple in the city of Yamagata, April 22, 2025. (Mainichi/Tadahiko Mori) Donald Keene's journey tracing the footsteps of haiku poet ...

Matsuo Basho is widely regarded as the finest Japanese haiku poet and nature writer. His introspective travel sketches, written mostly during his later years, make up the greatest part of Basho’s ...