New boxed set collection makes a rare set of live recordings by influential guitarist Robbie Basho available for the first ...

This 5CD set of rediscovered live recordings by Robbie Basho is a total wonder, says Jennifer Lucy Allan ...

One of six children, his father was a low ranking provincial samurai who made a living by teaching calligraphy. Basho entered into the service of a local ruling military house where he befriended the ...

London’s Royal Albert Hall is preparing to host a different kind of spectacle: Sumo wrestling. Wrestlers put on an exhibition ...

OTSU--Spanning 40 meters, a three-volume picture scroll depicting the life of poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is on view in its entirety for the first time at the Otsu City Museum of History here.

Top-tier sumo wrestling will make a rare appearance in London for the first time in three decades – and for the second time ...

The five-day event, or ‘basho’, has been held only once before outside Japan – back in 1991 and also at the venerable concert ...

KYOTO--Fukuda Art Museum in Kyoto’s Ukyo Ward announced on May 24 that it had purchased the long-missing illustrated scroll of a travelogue by the poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) from an art ...

An intense opening weekend of action at sumo's November tournament, the Kyushu Basho, has already set up several intriguing storylines for the sport’s final meet of 2024. To no one’s surprise ...

Elite Sumo wrestling will return to the Royal Albert Hall for the first time since 1991 as the Japanese sport ventures away ...

This comes three decades after the 1991 basho, also at the Royal Albert Hall, became first official Sumo tournament to be staged outside of Japan. Sumo wrestling, which is dictated by ritual and ...