Basho's Narrow Road
A stimulating exploration of the haiku masterpiece.
Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan''s greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet''s five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen...
A stimulating exploration of the haiku masterpiece.
Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan''s greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet''s five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen...
