Question

This author wrote about giving food to a “child crying in the autumn wind” who had been abandoned by his parents while walking along a riverside with his servant Chiri. This author notes that a creature “gives us no sign / That presently it will die” in a poem about “the cry of the cicada.” (-5[1])A series of (10[1])travel (10[1])essays by this author (10[1])blends prose with poetry (10[3])and (10[2])includes (10[4])Records (10[1])of a Weather-Exposed (10[2])Skeleton (10[1])as well (10[1])as a work that opens “Days and (10[1])months are the travellers (10[1])of eternity.” (10[4]-5[1])This poet collected and commented on a series of poems that contain “cutting words” (10[2])as (10[1])part (10[1])of an anthology (10[3])named (-5[1])for a children’s game (10[1])in which (10[1])the title objects are compared, (10[1])The Seashell Game. (10[1])For 10 points, the haibun (-5[1])travelogue (10[2])The Narrow Road to the Deep North (10[1])is (10[1])by what (10[3])Japanese (10[1])master of haiku? (10[2])■END■ (10[6]0[2])

ANSWER: Matsuo Bashō [or Bashō Matsuo or Matsuo Kinsaku or Masuo Chūemon Munefusa]
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