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Basho's Narrow Road - Spring and Autumn Passages (Paperback)
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Basho's Narrow Road - Spring and Autumn Passages (Paperback)
Series: Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
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List price R387
Loot Price R334
Discovery Miles 3 340
You Save R53 (14%)
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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 carefully
sculpted, rich in literary and Zen allusion and filled with great
insights and vital rhythms. In "Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and
Autumn Passages," poet and translator Hiroaki Sato presents the
complete work in English and examines the threads of history,
geography, philosophy, and literature that are woven into Basho's
exposition. He details in particular the extent to which Basho
relied on the community of writers with whom he traveled and joined
in linked verse (renga) poetry sessions, an example of which, "A
Farewell Gift to Sora," is included in this volume. In explaining
how and why Basho made the literary choices he did, Sato shows how
the poet was able to transform his passing observations into words
that resonate across time and culture.
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