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A Haiku Journey: Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province (Illustrated Japanese Classics) (Paperback)(English / Japanese)
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Short Description for A Haiku JourneyHere is a classic journey of poetic self-discovery, written by Japan's finest writer of haiku poetry. This edition includes a critical introduction to Basho's life and works, sumi-e ink drawings and text presented in both English and Japanese orthography.
Full description- Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd
- Published: 01 March 2002
- Format: Paperback 128 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Poetry By Individual Poets | Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800 | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
- ISBN 13: 9784770028587 ISBN 10: 477002858X
- Sales rank: 265,527
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Full description for A Haiku Journey
In the seventeenth century, the pilgrim-poet Basho undertook on foot a difficult and perilous journey to the remote northeastern provinces of Honshu, Japan's main island. Throughout the five-month journey, the master of haiku kept a record of his impressions in a prose-poetry diary later called The Narrow Road to a Far Province. His diary was to become one of the classics of Japanese literature. Noted professor of Japanese literature J. Thomas Rimer wrote of this classic: "In his diary, which Basho kept reworking and revising until his death, he mixed fact, fiction, poetry, and prose to create the record of a journey that moves both geographically and spiritually, one strand mixing with the other on virtually every page. Read and reread with care, The Narrow Road to a Far Province can reveal more qualities still basic to Japanese cultural attitudes than perhaps any other work in the whole canon of classical literature. For once, the highest of reputations is truly deserved." This new edition is illustrated with sumi-e ink sketches by Japanese artist Shiro Tsujimura.
