Moon Woke Me Up Nine TimesBy: Matsuo Basho Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master. Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts snow on distant mountains I watch both," he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the