A Haiku journey : Bashō's Narrow road to a far province
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A Haiku journey : Bashō's Narrow road to a far province
Kodansha International, 2002
1st trade pbk. ed
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奥の細道 : 英文版
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Here 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. 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
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