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Basho: the Complete Haiku - Hardcover by Matsuo Basho
Category: Classics
Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters. Yet despite his stature, Bashos complete ...Show more
Narrow Road to the Interior : And Other Writings by Sam (TRN) Matsuo; Hamill Basho
Category: Gift | Series: Shambhala Classics
On Love And Barley by Matsuo Basho
Category: Gift | Series: Classics Ser.
Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
Category: Gift | Series: Classics Ser.
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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