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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6132
EAN: 9781570627163
ISBN: 1570627169
Label: Shambhala
Manufacturer: Shambhala
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 26, 2000
Publisher: Shambhala
Release Date: September 26, 2000
Studio: Shambhala
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Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644-1694)—who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes a masterful translation of this celebrated work along with three other less well-known but important works by Basho: Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones, The Knapsack Notebook, and Sarashina Travelogue. There is also a selection of over two hundred fifty of Basho's finest haiku. In addition, the translator has provided an introduction detailing Basho's life and work and an essay on the art of haiku.
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I am not a scholar or a critic, I am just a person who really enjoys haiku and as such am familiar with Basho's poetry. I bought this book because it was cited in so many other books that I have read that I just had to read it for myself. I am very glad I did.
A good portion, but not all, of the haiku contained in this book you have read countless times before, though they are translated slightly differently here. To me the real value of this book is that the poems are put in context ... Read More
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Matsuo Basho's "Narrow Road to the Interior" is translated by Sam Hamill, an accomplished poet who also translated the haiku of ISSA in "The Spring of my Life" (isbn # 1570621446) As B. Watson, professor at Columbia University has said, "Hamill achieves a kind of luminosity of language that I find unparalleled in other translations of the work."
Basho lived from 1644-1694 and achieved acclaim as the greatest writer of haiku and.this book of his last travels is a classic in Asian ... Read More
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There is only one other book where you can find these four of Basho's "travel diaries" in one volume and that is Nobuyuki Yuasa's. This compilation also includes a generous selection of Basho's hokku. These are the book's pluses. Unfortunately though, Hamill is much too intent on presenting you with Basho as a sort of haiku-zen master, an identity that Basho himself created as a voice through which to narrate. Mr Hamill would have us believe that Basho wrote poetry for the sake of zen, but the truth is that ... Read More
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Narrow Road to the Interior and other writings
by Matsuo Basho
translated by Sam Hamill
This is the most complete collection of Basho's writings translated into English available in a single volume. Aficionados of Japanese culture keen on exploring the haiku literature would be hard-pressed to find a better book to start with.
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) lived during the Genroku period in Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate had unified the country and it was a time of relative peace, ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6132
EAN: 9781570627163
ISBN: 1570627169
Label: Shambhala
Manufacturer: Shambhala
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 26, 2000
Publisher: Shambhala
Release Date: September 26, 2000
Studio: Shambhala