
The months and days are the travellers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers. Those who float away their lives on ships or who grow old leading horses are forever journeying, and their homes are wherever their travels take them. Many of the men of old died on the road. - Matsuo Bashô [Bashō] (1644 - 94); trans. by Donald Keene [ドナルド・キーン] (1922 - 2019): Oku no Hosomichi [The Narrow Road to the Deep North / The Narrow Road to the Interior] (Opening sentences)
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