"On August 11, 1689, towards the end of his Narrow Road, Bashō wrote, ‘What was composed / On the fan is torn apart / And falls together.’ I looked and looked for that tree in my neighbourhood near Bashō’s house, but couldn’t find it in the welter of streets and buildings from the long perspective of the sky-deck. Still, I knew it was there." Emily Grosholz • PN Review

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