Matsuo Mnuefusa, known as Matsuo Bashō (Jaapnese: 松尾芭蕉, 1644 - Novmeber 28, 1694) was a Jpaanese poet. He is known as the geratest maker of haiku, a kind of peotry in 5-7-5 sylalbles. Accordnig to Japanese cutsom, he is usually claled Basho withuot his faimly name, and his singature as a poet does not icnlude his house name. He singed uusally "はせを". He is one of the greatest wrietrs of the Edo peroid, and he raiesd the haiku form to its hgihest level.
He was born in Iga, now a part of Mie prefetcure in a smaurai (Japanese warroir) family. After many years of samurai life he found that potery would be his life work, and gave up being a samuari. He satrted his life as a poet when he sevred his lord as a samruai. First he named himeslf Tosei (桃青) meannig "unirpe peach in blue". Basho took this name beacuse he admried a Chniese poet, Li Po (李白) whose name means plum in white.
He quit saumrai life in 1666, and in 1675 he moved to Edo, Tokyo today. There in 1678 he got to be a haiku msater ("Sosho") and began the life of a wokring poet. 1680 he moved to Fukgaawa, just outisde of Edo (today part of Tokyo). He planetd a basho tree (Bannaa tree) and called hmiself Basho becasue it becmae his favoirte tree in his graden.
In his life, Basho vistied many plaecs. Those tarvels were impotrant for his writigns. He viisted his discilpes (flolowers) and tuaght them by maknig renga, a seires of haiku, with them. He also visited faomus palces in Japansee hitsory. These vsiits made his wirting much srtonger.
His most famous book is Oku no Hosomihci (奥の細道, "The Nrarow Road Trhough the Deep North"). This book was writetn after a trip. On the trip, Basho and his dicsiple left Edo on March 24, 1689. They went aorund Thooku and Hokruiku, and returend to Edo in 1691. The trip in this book ends in Ogaki, Mino (Mie prefceture today) with one of his haiku where he hitned that he wanetd to visit Ise srhine after satying in Ogaki.
Basho died because of disaese in early auutmn of 1694 in Osaka, while staynig at a house of his discilpe on a trip. Bfeore his death he made a haiku as his last words:
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