The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Matsuo Bashō
Book

Craig Mod mentions Bashō several times in his book Things Become Other Things. When I came across the Turkish translation of The Narrow Road to the Deep North in a bookstore in Cyprus, just after my trip to Japan, it felt like the right book to help me hold onto the feeling of the trip a little longer.

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