This pretty much clears everything up:

"Kiyohide drew the map for Bill Bellmont and Fantasy Records, and was
very surprised to see it actually used in the liner notes! The map was
only drawn to show the relationship in Tokyo of the Folklore Centre
and the Matsuo Basho museum. There is no alter to Robbie Basho, I
think you're right, Fahey must have gotten confused with the
"hermitage" pointed out on the map, that's actually the museum.

Also, Kioyhide showed me a snippet of his collection of Basho
memorabillia, including an article on him with interview and
description of the various colours and moods of different keys from
Frets magazine, May 1981. I took digital photos of these and you can
read all the text, pretty much. He also gave me his "paper" that he
presented on Robbie Basho AT the Matsuo Basho museum last year (yeah,
I can see why Fahey would have got confused...), and a copy of the
Japan Times with a little bit about the presentation that took place."



--- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, "Robbie Dawson"
<robbie.dawson@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone here know anything about the 'tiny altar' alluded to in
> Fahey's notes for the Bashovia comp? Does it even exist?
>
> I received this email today from a friend of mine who is travelling
> through Japan and has had some success getting to the bottom of this
> confusion. I thought it might be of interest to the group -
>
> "I found the Tokyo Folklore Centre and met the owner and his son.
> Apparently they dont know anything about any 'alter' that was erected,
> and even if its there the map on Bashovia is erroneous. What it shows
> (I think) is the TFC and the Basho Hermitage, a museum dedicated to
> the life of MATSUO BASHO, just down the road from the TFC. Mr.
> Folklore was extremely pleased to see me, said that he liked my style
> and that i was the first person to ever ask about Robbie Basho. He has
> Robbie's name written in Japanese characters on his pinboard, he took
> a photo of me in his house. I'm going back on Wednesday (hopefully)
> and he's gonna give me a copy of some article or something, I dont
> know whats going on really. Anyway, the e-mail he originally sent me
> before I arrived in Japan is below, I took lots of photos and maybe
> this mysterious alter will appear on Wednesday, although I did look
> all round the area and saw nothing except the usual shrines. Im not
> sure if Mr. Folklore is aware of his shop being in the liner notes to
> Bashovia, Im sending him the scanned image to confirm that this alter
> doesn't exist. Actually his place isnt really a shop, its more of an
> office filled with old posters of Dylan, Ginsberg, Reverend Gary Davis
> cds, Woody Guthrie pictures et al."
>
> This is the e-mail from 'Mr. Folklore' mentioned above:
>
> "I'm so glad to see this mail.
> Our address/ 1-5-15 Chitose Sumida-ku,Tokyo 130-0025.
> Subway/ 7-min walk from Morishita Subway Station
> on Oedo Line or Shinjuku Line.
>
> I love Robbie Basho. His Ghost is ramblin from west coastto Japan to
> India.
> Unfortunately ,Tokyo Folklore Center not open from Aug. to Oct.
> If you would like to see the past Robbie Basho Memorial paper,go to the
> Basho Museum( Fukagawa).
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kiyohide at Tokyo Folklore Center"
>