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As well as these revelations, the scroll also uncovers more about Plato’s life – and his early life having been sold into slavery. As the text shows, Plato was sold on the island of Aegina as ...

All text and haiku in the scroll were handwritten by Basho himself. He also illustrated it. Shinichi Fujita, professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Kansai University, says, “I was stunned ...