Encyclopedia.com - Basho
- Basho imbued haiku, a social pastime, with the spirit of Zen, creating a serious literary form capable of profound artistic expression.
- http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/b/basho.asp

Matsuo Basho and Zen Haiku
- History of Zen monk, Basho's, creation of Zen haiku.
- http://www.mnzenctr.com/sangha/matsuo.html

Basho's World
- The stations from Matsuo Basho's travel diary "The Narrow Road to the Deep North".
- http://www.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/

Basho
- "A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things." Whether "temporary" or not, Basho gives in his seventeen syllables a significant intuition into Reality.
- http://www.poetrystore.com/commenta.html