His house burned in 1682, and it was at this time that Basho began to study Zen at the Chokei Temple in Fukagawa ... He also published a haiku collection, Winter Days, which was composed with his ...

All text and haiku in the scroll were handwritten by Basho himself. He also illustrated it. Shinichi Fujita, professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Kansai University, says, “I was stunned ...