Fuji, Sinai, Olympos

Travel companions on my journeys are four in number: Odysseus, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn and Basho." (Travel) "He walked in priestly garb. Arriving towards evening at a town or village, he'd chant sutras until passersby gave him, or flung him, enough money for a flophouse bed, a little food, a bath and enough saké to induce a measure of forgetfulness. 'A beggar, ' he admonished himself, 'has to learn to be an all-out beggar. Unless he can be that, he will never taste the happiness of be...