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These translations have been provided by Prof. Stephen Kohl of the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon. The links go to pages in the INTERNET Archive

The stations listed below are from Matsuo Basho's travel diary "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" (Oku no Hosomichi).

The primary translation is by Nobuyuki Yuasa, from The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches.

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1 Prologue 2 Departure 3 Soka 4 Muronoyashima 5 Nikko 6 Nasu 7 Kurobane 8 Unganji 9 Sesshoseki 10 Shirakawa 11 Sukagawa	12 Asaka 13 Shinobu 14 Sato Shoji 15 Iizuka 16 Kasajima 17 Takekuma 18 Sendai 19 Tsubo no Ishibumi 20 Shiogama 21 Matsushima 22 Ishinomaki	23 Hiraizumi 24 Dewagoe 25 Obanazawa 26 Ryushakuji 27 Oishida 28 Mogamigawa 29 Hagurosan 30 Gassan 31 Sakata 32 Kisagata 33 Echigo	34 Ichiburi 35 Kanazawa 36 Komatsu 37 Natadera 38 Daishoji 39 Maruoka 40 Fukui 41 Tsuruga 42 Ironohama 43 Ogaki 44 Postscript

Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Matsuo Basho's "Narrow Road to the Deep North" with illustrations (J., haiga) by Yosa Buson
(Important Cultural Property). Edo period, dated 1779.

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