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Basho's "Narrow Road": Spring and Autumn Passages by Basho Matsuo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Criticism | Series: Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
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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