Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho (Collector’s Edition)
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A lavish collector’s edition of the complete poems of eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashō—with a new index that contains the full Japanese text of the original poems.
Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō offers in English a full picture of the haiku of Bashō, 980 poems in all.
In Fitzsimons’s beautiful rendering, Bashō is much more than a philosopher of the natural world and the leading exponent of a refined Japanese sensibility. He is also a poet of queer love and eroticism; of the city as well as the country, the indoors and the outdoors, travel and staying put; of lonesomeness as well as the desire to be alone. Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō reveals how this work speaks to our concerns today as much as it captures a Japan emerging from the Middle Ages. For dedicated scholars and those coming upon Bashō for the first time, this beautiful collector’s edition of Fitzsimons’s elegant award-winning translation, with the original Japanese (including kanji, hiragana, and katakana), allows readers to enjoy these works in all their glory.
From the Publisher
Publisher : University of California Press
Publication date : September 3, 2024
Edition : First Edition
Language : English
Print length : 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 0520400739
ISBN-13 : 978-0520385580
Item Weight : 1.6 pounds
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.3 x 8.5 inches
Part of series : World Literature in Translation
Best Sellers Rank: #41,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #7 in Haiku & Japanese Poetry #12 in Japanese Literature #23 in Nature Poetry
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