Back Roads to Far Towns - Basho's Travel Journal

Basho (16441694) 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, Bashos 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.

List of contents

Introduction; Translator's Preface; The Journal; Notes on the Text; Map of the Journey.

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.

Summary

A classic translation of Basho's most famous travel journal

Product details

• Authors: Basho, Matsuo Basho
• Assisted by: Hide Oshiro (Illustration), Cid Corman (Translation)
• Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9781893996311
• ISBN: 978-1-893996-31-1
• No. of pages: 93
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 179 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 95 g
• Series: Companions for the Journey; Companions for the Journey
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous