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.” A series of travel essays by this author blends prose with poetry and includes (-5[1])Records of a Weather-Exposed (10[1])Skeleton (10[1])as well as a work that opens “Days and months (10[2])are the travellers (10[1])of eternity.” This poet collected and commented on a series of poems that contain “cutting words” as part of an anthology named for a children’s game in which the title objects are compared, The Seashell Game. For 10 points, the haibun travelogue The Narrow Road to the (10[1])Deep North is by what Japanese master of haiku? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])