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In 1689, the great Japanese poet Basho and his friend Sora embarked on a 1500-mile pilgrimage through the backlands and highlands north of Tokyo, ... More

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Basho is best known in the West as the author of "Narrow Road to the Interior," a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey ... More

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One spring morning in 1689, Basho, arguably the greatest of all Japanese poets, set forth on foot, accompanied by his friend and disciple Sora, from ... More

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A classic translation of Basho's most famous travel journal

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Offers the most comprehensive collection of Bashō 's prose available, beautifully translated into English.

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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 ... More

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Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and this book establishes the ground for badly needed critical ... More

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When a magical fox tricks the great Japanese poet Basho into giving up the cherries from his tree in exchange for river stones, Basho teaches the fox ... More

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This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan--a rarity not only because of ... More

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In 1878, a decade after Japan was launched into the world of modern nations by the Meiji restoration of 1868, Isabella Lucy Bird set off alone to ... More

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Title: Noto, an unexplored corner of Japan.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the ... More

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Percival Lawrence Lowell (1855-1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, ... More

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In "Basho's Journey, David Landis Barnhill provides the definitive translation of Matsuo Basho's literary prose, as well as a companion piece to his ... More

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Isabella L. Bird was one of the most famous British travelers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her account of her trip to Japan in 1878 is ... More

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During his travels in Japan with Henry Adams in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the doyen of American impressionist painters, La Farge, ... More

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The guiding work on Japan, Japanese culture, and Japanese objects and institutions

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When Pico Iyer decides to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he does so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of ... More

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With an acute eye and ear for the rhythms of country life, Brian Moeran takes us on a memorable journey through the pleasures and penalties of being ... More

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Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and this book establishes the ground for badly needed critical ... More

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