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Back Roads to Far Towns
Basho's Travel Journal

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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.

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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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A classic translation of Basho's most famous travel journal

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Authors Matsuo Basho, Basho
Assisted by Hide Oshiro (Illustration), Cid Corman (Translation)
Publisher White Pine Press (NY)
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 01.10.2004
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
 
EAN 9781893996311
ISBN 978-1-893996-31-1
Pages 93
Dimensions (packing) 12.7 x 17.9 x 0.8 cm
Weight (packing) 95 g
 
Series Companions for the Journey
Companions for the Journey
Subjects TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues
History - General History
HISTORY / Asia / Japan
POETRY / Asian / General
 

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