Basho's Narrow Road Spring and Autumn Passages

Name: Basho's Narrow Road Spring and Autumn Passages
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ISBN: 9781880656204

ISBN-10: 1880656205

ISBN-13: 9781880656204

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Authors: Matsuo Basho, Hiroaki Sato, Cor Van den Heuvel

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Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen allusion and filled with great insights and vital rhythms. In Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages, poet and translator Hiroaki Sato presents the complete work in English and examines the threads of history, geography, philosophy, and literature that are woven into Basho's exposition. He details in particular the extent to which Basho…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Publication date: 7/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.90" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English