旅の日（tabi no hi）： Day of Travel

They say May 16 is tabi no hi(旅の日), Day of Travel. This was established in 1988 by the Nihon tabi no pen curabu(日本旅のペンクラブ), Japan Travel Pen Club.
320 years ago on this day, that is May 16, 1689 the most famous Japanese poet in the Edo era, Matsuo Bosho(松尾芭蕉) started off from Edo to the Tohoku (東北) and Hokuriku (北陸), northern part of Japan and reached Ogaki(大垣), in Gifu (岐阜). After 5 months travel of 2,500 km he completed the log of his journey and edited it for three years, writing the final version in 1694 as Oku no hosomichi(奥の細道), The Narrow Road to the Interior. They say the first edition was published posthumously in 1702 and it was an immediate commercial success and many other itinerant poets followed the path of his journey.

I like traveling and writing. I hope I can publish my travel journals someday too.