- The stations listed below are from Matsuo Basho's travel diary The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no Hosomichi). The primary translation is by Nobuyuki Yuasa, from The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. If you have any comments, please let us know. 1 Prologue 2 Departure 3 Soka 4 Muronoyashima 5 Nikko 6 Nasu 7 Kurobane 8 Unganji 9 Sesshoseki 10 Shirakawa 11 Sukagawa 12 ...www.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho