The actor's death made big headlines in all the papers.

A new actor was billed to appear as Hamlet.

I think those who like the actors in the play won't lose anything by buying it.

Now that I think of it, I've been asked to look at a haiku he'd written by the tipsy bloke sitting next to me on the train.

When I was in my first years of grade school, my father taught me a haiku and I longed to be a poet. On my Tanabata wish, I also wrote "Please make me a poet". Thirty years have passed and my wish has been granted. I am without doubt an invalid.

The actor died at the height of his popularity.

The actors appeared in historical costumes.

Basho visited places mentioned in old waka poems, and wrote his own haiku there.