Although these two authors, Ki no Turayuki and Matsuo Basho lived in different times, they created excellent travelogues. Tosa Nikki was the first well-written travelogue in Japan and showed how to write a diary. Oku no Hosochi was developed from the diary style of the first Tosa Nikki. In this essay I would like to discuss the lives of Ki no Tsurayuki and Matsuo Bashō. Then, I will show how their diaries were different. Finally, I will discuss how these diaries are similar, and although they are very different, they were both written to help the people of Japan. The author, Ki no Tsurayuki, lived from 884 to 946. He was a great poet and one of four compilers of the Japanese anthology called Kokinwakashu, or Collection of Ancient and Modern Poetry. He wrote Tosa Nikki around 936. It was the first written travelogue describing his return to Kyoto, the capital of Japan, from Tosa Province (now Kōchi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku) after finishing his duty as provincial governor . Matsuo Bashō, on the other hand was a great Japanese poet. He wrote Oku no Hosochi, a travelogue based on a journey he took with his disciple Kawai Sora in 1694. It was a 1,500-mile journey through the rugged countryside of northern Honshu that lasted 156 days (Handout 15, n.d.). " He visited many shrines and places visited by Saigyo, and at each stop he left poems. Both were travel diaries, however they were very different. In the time of Ki no Tsurayuki, only men wrote diaries, and they wrote them in Chinese, mainly about the affairs of state or about the imperial court, not about their personal life. As for his travels, returning home to Kyoto is usually a happy experience. However, when he was in Tosa, he lost... half of the paper... he was traveling in the 'Northern Honshu like him. Both, Ki no Tsurayuki and Matsuo Bashō, were great Japanese writers. They had different stories and writing styles own life. Tosa Nikki tried to help so that many people were inspired by it and wrote diaries. They both greatly influenced Japan and Japanese literature . Works Cited1. Keene D. (1955). Anthology of Japanese literature (Tosa Nikki)2. Handout 15 - Matsuo Bashō. https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/group/MAN.80830.201130/Handouts/Handout%2015%20-%20haikai%2C%20haiku.pdf3. Reading – Oku no Hosomichi https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/group/MAN.80830.201130/Readings/Oku%20no%20hosomichi.pdf