Product Description: classic Japanese, tr Corman

A collection of Basho's prose works include all of his longer prose pieces--the travel journals and 'Saga Diary'--along with eighty short essays in haibun, prose in the spirit of haiku.

Product Description: Basho's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Basho is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism...read more

Collects translations of Japanese haiku and other works.

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

Offers forty-nine selections by Bashåo and other Japanese haiku masters.

A collection of haiku presents examples of the tightly structured, deceptively simple verse form.

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

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 dairy called Oku no Hosomichi, "The Narrow Road to the Far North...read more

Offers a sampling of the seventeenth-century Japanese poet's works in the haiku.