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A beautiful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature.Basho (1644-1694)-a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty-is renowned in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku recounting his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This edition features a masterful translation...

Collected here are over 200 of the best Haiku of Japanese literature, written from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century by the great masters, and translated by one of America's foremost translators. Two color interior and 12 two-color illustrations.

Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644-1694)--who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty--is best known in the West as the author of "Narrow Road to the Interior, " a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes a masterful t...