Product Description: Este diario de viaje (cuaderno de bocetos, impresiones y apuntes) es ejemplo perfecto del haibun, género en boga en la época de Basho (1644-1694), en el que un texto en prosa rodea, como si fuesen islotes, a un grupo de haikús...read more

Product Description: In the seventeenth century, the pilgrim-poet Basho undertook on foot a difficult and perilous journey to the remote northeastern provinces of Honshu, Japan's main island. Throughout the five-month journey, the master of haiku kept a record of his impressions in a prose-poetry diary later called The Narrow Road to a Far Province...read more

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Product Description: In the account which he named The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho makes a journey lasting 150 days, in which he travels, on foot, a distance of 600 ri. This was three hundred years ago, when the average distance covered by travelers was apparently 9 ri per day, so it is clear that Basho, who was forty years old at the time, possessed a remarkably sturdy pair of walking legs...read more

Product Description: By combining the idea of "Karumi" --lightness of touch--and oneness with nature, Basho (1644-1694) rose above the artificiality of previous haiku poets to become the master of the genre in his time. His exquisite compositions reflect the influences of his Zen Buddhism and a life spent traveling, and reveal him to be an inspired perfectionist who sought to express himself in the purest possible form...read more

The seventeenth-century Japanese poet describes his two-year 1500-mile pilgrimage across the island of Honshu.

Verse and prose observations of a seventeenth-century writer during his travels through Japan