Back Roads to Far Towns Basho's Travel Journal

Name: Back Roads to Far Towns Basho's Travel Journal
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ISBN: 9781893996311

ISBN-10: 189399631X

ISBN-13: 9781893996311

Edition: 2004

Authors: Basho, Cid Corman, Hide Oshiro, Matsu Basho

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Basho (1644__1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi, details the most arduous part of a nine-month journey with his friend and disciple, Sora, through the backlands north of the capital, west to the Japan Sea and back toward Kyoto. More than a record of the journey, Basho's journal is a poetic sequence that has become a center of the Japanese mind/heart. Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text. Cid Corman was well-known as a poet, translator and editor of Origin, the…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: White Pine Press
Publication date: 10/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.198

Cid Corman was well-known as a poet, translator and editor of Origin, the ground-breaking poetry magazine.



Introduction


Translator's Preface


The Journal


Notes on the Text


Map of the Journey