There are several places where you can find information on Matsuo Basho. Poemhunter.com has an article about him, and National Geographic has a lot of information about him here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Matsuo_Basho. While Wikipedia isn't a good source to cite, you can find him on there and then look at the references used for that article. Finding those references (a lot of them are books and journals) will also help you learn more about him.
