Back Roads to Far Towns - Basho: Basho's Travel Journal (Companions for the Journey) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 189399631X ISBN 13: 9781893996311

Verlag: White Pine Press, 2018

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"Of the half dozen English versions of Basho's most famous travel journal, Corman's is the best. He recreates the unique toughness and terseness of Basho's original language, crossing the translation barrier..." -- William J Higginson.

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Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi, details the most arduous part of a nine-month journey with his friend and disciple, Sora, through the backlands north of the capital, west to the Japan Sea and back toward Kyoto. More than a record of the journey, Basho's journal is a poetic sequence that has become a centre of the Japanese mind/heart. Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text.

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• Verlag: White Pine Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 189399631X
• ISBN 13: 9781893996311
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94