Back Roads to Far Towns
Download or Read eBook Back Roads to Far Towns PDF written by 松尾芭蕉 and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : 松尾芭蕉 |
| Publisher | : White Pine Press |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| ISBN-10 | : 189399631X |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781893996311 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Back Roads to Far Towns by : 松尾芭蕉
Book excerpt: 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.
