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Title: Basho's Narrow Road
Condition: New
Subtitle: Spring and Autumn Passages
Author: Matsuo Basho
Translator: Hiroaki Sato
Contributor: Hiroaki Sato (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781880656204
ISBN: 9781880656204
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 16/07/1998
Description: 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 allusion and filled with great insights and vital rhythms. In Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages, poet and translator Hiroaki Sato presents the complete work in English and examines the threads of history, geography, philosophy, and literature that are woven into Basho's exposition. He details in particular the extent to which Basho relied on the community of writers with whom he traveled and joined in linked verse (renga) poetry sessions, an example of which, A Farewell Gift to Sora, is included in this volume. In explaining how and why Basho made the literary choices he did, Sato shows how the poet was able to transform his passing observations into words that resonate across time and culture.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 226mm
Item Length: 137mm
Item Width: 12mm
Item Weight: 269g
Book Series: Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
Release Year: 1998

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