num_pages: 280
description: Retracing the steps of revered Japanese poet Matsuo Basho's eight-hundred mile journey, the author explores the possibilities of a simpler older way of life still existing in a modernized Japan three hundred years later
language: English
title: On the Narrow Road: A Journey into Lost Japan
titlecomplete: On the Narrow Road: A Journey into Lost Japan
genres: Biography, Japanese Literature, Travel, Nature, Poetry, Walking, Nonfiction, Adventure, Japan, Memoir
ratings_count: 202
publisher: Summit Books