Oku no Hosomichi Essays

uplands and lowlands, along the coast of the Sea of Japan and mountain ranges, and into different villages. When they finally arrived in Kyoto, Basho published a book of diaries that explained daily events and other occurrences. It was called Oku no Hosomichi, or the Narrow Road to the Interior. This book was considered one of the “major texts of Japanese literature” and is in the form of several haibuns. The haibuns explain the internal and external feelings and scenes that Matsuo Basho experienced

This illustrates how the Japanese too have higher orders of understanding just like other western cultures, thus humanising the Nakamura and the other Japanese soldiers. Flanagan’s use of Bashō’s poetry and the title of one of Bashō’s works Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) as the title of his novel highlights from the outset that the Japanese story is something that is just as important as the story of the Australians and Dorrigo. For the cruelty of the Japanese is not something

Introduction Throughout our lives society shapes whom we are and how we act, through this we are forced to assume roles based on how others view and perceive us. Both through our close friends and family and the broader media and society, these stereotypes and attitudes from which we develop into can both be good and bad. It is through these expectations and social pressures that greatness can be developed in people, but is also though these expectations great evil and cruelty can be developed within