On This Road

On This Road - context Summary

Part of Narrow Road Journey

This brief haiku frames a solitary moment on the road at autumn nightfall. Basho compresses travel, loneliness, and seasonal transience into a single image: an empty path where no one else travels. The poem belongs to Narrow Road to the Deep North and reflects Basho's wandering experience, using the autumn evening setting to suggest impermanence and the quiet introspection of a traveler alone in the landscape.