Ogaki is the city where the poet Matsuo Basho concluded his 1689 (Genroku 2) journey recorded in Oku no Hosomichi. As the endpoint of a roughly 150-day, 2,400-kilometer journey, Basho was reunited with his haiku companions in Ogaki and composed the verse "Hamaguri no futami ni wakare yuku aki zo" (Like a clam torn from its shell, I part to go on to Futami). Ogaki City preserves several sites conne…

In the third month of 1689 (Genroku 2), the haiku master Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) departed from Fukagawa in Edo and set out on a journey through the provinces of Oshu and Hokuriku, covering approximately 2,400 kilometres over about 150 days. This journey was later recorded in the haiku travel diary …