# The Narrow Road to Oku

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- Book: [The Narrow Road to Oku](https://www.bookquiver.com/matsuo-basho/the-narrow-road-to-oku) ([The Narrow Road to Oku.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/matsuo-basho/the-narrow-road-to-oku.md))
- Authors: [Matsuo Bashō](https://www.bookquiver.com/matsuo-basho), [Donald Keene](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-keene)
- Publisher: kodansha_international
- ISBN: 978-15-6836-584-8
- Pages: 188
- Published: 2017-07-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the account which he named " The Narrow Road to Oku," Basho makes a journey lasting 150 days, in which he travels, on foot, a distance of 600 ri. This was three hundred years ago, when the average distance...