Study Questions

Barnhill, “The Journals of Matsuo Bashō”

Study Aids

 

1. What is a “phenomenological hermeneutical approach?”

 

2. What religious and aesthetic traditions did Bashō draw from? What is their significance for Bashō’s spirituality? (There are two sections on this in the reading.)

 

3. What are the various types of mujō in Bashō’s journals?

 

4. In what sense is “the journey itself home” for Bashō?

 

 

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