Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal

Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher...
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Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal by Basho

Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal

$36.23

Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal

$36.23
Author: Basho
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 center of the Japanese mind/heart. Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text.

Cid Corman was well-known as a poet, translator and editor of Origin, the ground-breaking poetry magazine.



Author: Basho
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: 10/01/2004
Pages: 93
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 7.04h x 5.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781893996311


Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 09/01/2005 pg. 18

About the Author
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 were recorded in his travel journals. Back Roads to Far Towns, a translation of Oku-No-Hosomichi, is his last and most mature. Cid Corman is well known as a poet, translator, and as the editor of Origin, a ground breaking poetry magazine. His recent publications include Now Now and No Choice.

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