“The road gods beckoned.” ~ Basho.

Poet Matsuo Basho set off in 1689 into Japan’s backcountry. His journal, Narrow Road to a Far Province, described a path, still visible on Natagiri Pass, that devotees have followed ever since.

Photograph by Michael Yamashita, National Geographic

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