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Basho: the Complete Haiku - Hardcover by Matsuo Basho
Category: Classics
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 ...Show more
Lips Too Chilled: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #62 by Matsuo Basho
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'Nothing more lonely' - a selection of Basho's most magical haiku. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a ba ...Show more
Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Basho
Category: Poetry
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master. Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quil ...Show more
Narrow Road to Oku (Illustrated-Miyata) by BASHO MATSUO & KEENE DONALD (TRANS)
Category: Poetry
In the account which he named "The Narrow Road to Oku," Basho makes a journey lasting 150 days, in which he travels, on foot, a distance of 600 ri. This was three hundred years ago, when the average distance covered by travelers was apparently 9 ri per day, so it is clear that Basho, who was forty years ...Show more
Narrow Road to the Interior by Matsuo Basho; Sam Hamill
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644-1694)--who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty--is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a trav ...Show more
Narrow Road to the Interior : And Other Writings by Sam (TRN) Matsuo; Hamill Basho
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Shambhala Classics
On Love And Barley by Matsuo Basho
Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
Category: Travel | Series: Classics Ser.
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho stri ...Show more
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