Basho may refer to:
- Bashō, Edo-period Japanese haiku poet
- Basho (crater), a crater on Mercury
- Basho (company), a distributed database company
- Bashō, a Noh play by Komparu Zenchiku
- Basho, a concept in Kitaro Nishida's philosophy
- Basho, a contest in sumo wrestling, especially one of the honbasho
- Basho Technologies, makers of the Riak distributed database
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Famous quotes containing the word basho:
“Cooling, so cooling,
with a wall against my feet,
midday sleep—behold.”
—Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)
“Clouds now and again
give a soul some respite from
moon-gazing—behold.”
—Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)