Pen name of Matsuo Munefusa (1644-1694)
Japanese poet. He was a master of the haiku, a 17-syllable poetic form with lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, which he infused with subtle allusiveness. His Oku-no-hosomichi/The Narrow Road to the Deep North 1694, an account of a visit to northern and western Honshu, consists of haiku interspersed with prose passages.