Basho: The Complete Haiku

by Matsuo Bashō

Book Overview

Basho stands today as Japan's most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters.

Yet despite his stature, Basho's complete haiku have not been collected into a single volume. Until now.

To render the writer's full body of work into English, Jane Reichhold,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568365373
• ISBN13: 9781568365374
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Kodansha International
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"