Some JSTOR articles on Bashō
- Traces of Dreams by Haruo Shirane, reviewed Steven Carter
- Naming Properties by Earl Miner, reviewed by David Barnhill
- "Bush clover and Moon" by Christine Millett
- "Bashō and the Mastery of Poetic Space" by Steven Carter
- "Reading Bashō at Matsushima" by Kitamura Tokoku
- "Bashō at Bat" by David Barnhill
- "Matsuo Bashō and The Poetics of Scent" by Haruo Shirane
- "On a Bare Branch" by Steven Carter
Some better than most English language sources for biographical information on Bashō
- Narrow Road to the Interior, trans. by Sam Hamill
- Traditional Japanese Poetry, ed. by Steven Carter
- Bashō and His Interpreters, by Makoto Ueda
- Matsuo Bashō, by Makoto Ueda
- Bashō: Narrow Road to the Deep North, trans. by Nobuyuki Yuasa