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Luminescence Chamber Singers prepare to perform a "vocal dissection" of the human body. Composer Dan Walker wields the scalpel.

Bashō, in full Matsuo Bashō, pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa, (born 1644, Ueno, Iga province, Japan—died Nov. 28, 1694, Ōsaka), the supreme Japanese haiku poet, who greatly enriched the 17-syllable haiku form and made it an accepted medium of artistic expression. Interested in haiku from an early age, Bashō at first put his literary interests aside and entered the service of a local feudal lord. After his lord’s death in 1666, however, Bashō abandoned his samurai (warrior) status to devote himself to poetry. Moving to the capital city of Edo (now Tokyo), he gradually acquired a reputati...

What used to be meaningfully informative programming, delivered by personable but only tangentially notable hosts, is gradually being swallowed up.

An indie poet shares his love of haiku and tanka.

Taking its name from a poem dedicated to the world of natural beauty, Setsugekka is a new select shop focusing on Japanese minimalism.