A Haiku Journey: Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province (English and Japanese Edition) by Matsuo Basho

Kodansha International, 1980T. paperback. Very Good. 0.5000 in x 6.9000 in x 4.3000 in.

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In the seventeenth century, the pilgrim-poet Basho undertook on foot a difficult and perilous journey to the remote northeastern provinces of Honshu, Japan's main island. Throughout the five-month journey, the master of haiku kept a record of his impressions in a prose-poetry dairy called Oku no Hosomichi, "The Narrow Road to the Far North." That dairy was to become one of the classics of Japanese literature.
In A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature, J. Thomas Rimer writes of this classic:
"[The wry and human touch Basho brought to his haiku] ... may well serve to disguise for the casual reader the fact that Basho was a profoundly serious artist, whose work can be read and pondered for spiritual depths, however pleasant it may be to splash around in his shallows. Nowhere can these qualities be better seen than in his long poetic diary The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no hosomichi), first published in 1702, eight years after his death. It is the longest and, in received opinion, the greatest of… Read More

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1986. softcover. Book VG-: mild age wear to wraps and spine, mild toning, text clean, binding tight.. 16mo 124pp. sixth printing. see pictures for synopsis. poems in English translation and original Japanese. #02856.

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