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Basho was born Matsuo Kinsaku around , somewhere near Ueno in Iga Province.
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In , at age 28, Basho set out for Edo (now Tokyo), the seat of the Tokugawa shoguns in order to make his career as a professional poet.


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Article abstract: Bashō is considered one of Japan’s greatest poets, especially as master of the haiku.
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Basho MATSUO ( - November 28, ) was a haikai (seventeen-syllable verse) poet from present-day Iga City, Mie Prefecture in the early Edo period.