This author's homoerotic poetry includes one about "accompanying my boy lover frightened by a fox." For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poet, who began a travel diary by stating, "The days and months are travelers of eternity."
ANSWER: Matsuo Bashō [or Matsuo Bashō; or Matsuo Kinsaku; or Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa]
[10h] A Bashō haiku in this genre describes "wandering over withered fields." Sei Shōnagon is told to "look at the dew on the leaves and grass" in a poem in this genre by Fujiwara no Teishi.
ANSWER: death poem [or jisei]
[10e] Before his death by seppuku during a failed coup attempt, this author wrote a poem about how "falling is the essence of a flower." He wrote The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
ANSWER: Yukio Mishima
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