Back Roads to Far Towns: Bashos Travel Journal BashoPaperback
Back Roads to Far Towns: Bashos Travel Journal BashoPaperback Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi, details the most…
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Back Roads to Far Towns: Bashos Travel Journal BashoPaperback
Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. 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, Sora, through the backlands north of the capital, west to the Japan Sea and back toward Kyoto. 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.
Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text.Cid Corman was well-known as a poet, translator and editor of Origin, the ground-breaking poetry More than a record of the journey, Basho's journal is a poetic sequence that has become a center of the Japanese mind/heart.