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Matsuo Basho

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by: Makoto Ueda See Larger Image List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.90 You Save: $2.10 (15%) as of 11/21/2009 13:43 EST Used Price: $5.35 Third Party New Price: $7.94 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 895.613 EAN: 9780870115530 ISBN: 0870115537 Label: Kodansha International Manufacturer: Kodansha International Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 194 Publication Date: 1982 Publisher: Kodansha International Studio: Kodansha International Related Items: The Narrow Road to Oku (Illustrated Japanese Classics) Basho: The Complete Haiku Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics) Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature) see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Behind the life and work - the prose and poetry - of a literary genius. The only comprehensive study that examines all areas of Basho's work, including haibun, renku and critical commentaries. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - I love Basho This book is great for the history of Basho's life as well as what motivated him for his writing. A great read! It's not too wordy or boring. I highly recommend. Rating: - a great find! I am fairly new to haiku and this poet. Was recommended to me, and I now do the same to anyone wanting to read and be calmed by the depth of understanding of our lives, animals, all nature around us, that is presented by Matsuo Basho. I now have two of his books, his travel journals, and return to them often whenever I need to mentally take a trip myself to another time and place. Everyone should read some Basho. I recommend this book. Rating: - Critique and Commentary If you are looking for a complete collection of Matsuo Basho's poetry, this is not what you are looking for. However, if you are looking for a personal and literary biography of the haiku master and his influence on Japanese literature, this is what you are looking for. The writing is clear and interesting and the text is liberally studded with examples of not only Basho's, but the the work of his contemporaries and students. Definately for the literary minded. Rating: - An introduction to haiku and its master While reading this book I realized that I knew nothing about haiku. I had always thought that the form of haiku, the 5-7-5 pattern was important but I had never really considered why this pattern mattered, or what one tried to accomplish with a haiku that could not be accomplished with a more free-form style of poetry. This book, "Matsuo Basho," not only supplies an interesting history of the undisputed master of Japanese haiku, but it also contains an introductory lesson on the different ... Read More Rating: - Highly recommended This delightful little book deserves a brief review, some stars. I read it twenty-five years ago, and can remember the experience with great clarity (which I can only say of a select few books). I didn't have high expectations when I picked it up, but found it surpisingly exciting and deeply satisfying - and grew to care for the book, and Matsuo Basho, long before I was done. If you have an interest in Basho or haiku poetry, this is a marvellous and friendly guide. As well as being a very readable biography ... Read More

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