Picturing Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Deep North
Giving in to my wanderlust, I happen upon a newly discovered masterpiece on a sweltering summer day in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto.
KYOTO — TFP, we’re happy to report, is filing this from the road—a road more than 6,000 miles away from home, in the rain, on a sweltering summer day in the ancient former capital of Japan. And we couldn’t be more grateful. In addition to the lives of friends and family, the pandemic stole our spontaneity and ability to take to the road on a whim, visit…
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