Matsuo Basho was the supreme master of the haiku. He went to Edo, the shogun's capital, a young man determined to succeed as a poet, where he won acclaim at haiku gatherings, only to withdraw to a hermitage. The feeling that he was without a home became linked in his mind with the Buddhist idea of the transitoriness of life. He set out on a perpetual journey. Author Makoto Sugawara recounts the life of Basho, the poet, through detailed and perceptive analysis of the best of his haiku.
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Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on cover and spine, binding solid.
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