Poetry. Translated from the Japanese by Cid Corman. In this, a classic translation of Basho's most famous travel journal, the most celebrated Haiku poet of Japan records his many travels, including the morst ardous part of a nin-month journey through the backlands north of the capital, west to the sea, and back to Kyoto. More than just a record of that journey, Basho's journal is a poetic sequence that has become a center of the Japanese mind/heart. Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text.