A stimulating exploration of the haiku masterpiece.
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.
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Hiroaki Sato is a prolific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry into English. American Beat poet Gary Snyder has called Sato’ perhaps the...
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 192 ● ISBN 9781611725278 ● Dimensione 2.4 MB ● Traduttore Hiroaki Sato ● Casa editrice Stone Bridge Press ● Pubblicato 2013 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2682797 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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