Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the ...
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment. He ...
Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters. Yet despite his stature, Bashos complete haiku have not been collected into a single ...
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) was the greatest of the Japanese haiku poets, whose genius elevated the haiku to an art form of intense spiritual beauty. The masterpiece of Basho's career, and one of the most revered classics of Japanese literature, is a diary, written in prose and haiku, of Basho's journey to the northern interior of Japan. But "Narrow ...
Here is the most complete single-volume collection of writings by one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644-1694) elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty, and is best known in the West as the author of The Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku. This ...
Here is a classic journey of poetic self-discovery, written by Japan's finest writer of haiku poetry. This edition includes a critical introduction to Basho's life and works, sumi-e ink drawings and text presented in both English and Japanese orthography.
Haiku may be the most popular and widely recognizable poetic form in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awarenes. Elements of compassion, silence, and a sense of temporality often combine to reveal a quality of mystery. Just as often, haiku may bring a startling insight into the ...
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 previous translation, "Basho's Haiku. One of the world's greatest nature writers, Basho (1644-1694) is well known for his subtle sensitivity to the natural world, and his writings have influenced ...
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, across the island of Honshu, and down the west coast. This travel diary is the account of this arduous journey. The poet's humanity permeates this graceful memoir, whether Basho is complaining about a ...
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 ...
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, across the island of Honshu, and down the west coast. This travel diary is the account of this arduous journey. The poet's humanity permeates this graceful memoir, whether Basho is complaining about a ...
Bashō 's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Bashō is especially beloved by those who ...
Here is the most complete single-volume collection of writings by one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Includes a masterful translation of Basho's most celebrated work, "Narrow Road to the Interior," along with three less well-known works and over 250 of Basho's finest haiku. The translator has included an overview of Basho's life and ...
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, ...
In the mid-fifties, Octavio Paz and Eikichi Hayashiya, then Japanese ambassador in Mixico, worked together in a translation of seventeenth century Japanese Poety Matsuo Basho's famous Oku no Hosomichi (The narrow road to Oku), which was published in 1956. Basho's work if a sort of travel diary in a lyric key, highlighted by hai-kai verses, which ...
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, across the island of Honshu, and down the west coast. This travel diary is the account of this arduous journey. The poet's humanity permeates this graceful memoir, whether Basho is complaining about a ...
Japanese poetry is well-known for its clarity and concision, and "The Narrow Road to the Interior" and "Hojoki" are two of the best-loved, and most intensely Japanese, works of their kind; famous for their beautiful, delicate verse and subtle insight into the human condition. It has been said of "The Narrow Road" that 'it was as if the very soul ...
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