Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Oku-No-Hosomichi by Matsuo Bashō
Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Oku-No-Hosomichi
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Matsuo Bashō
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Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Oku-No-Hosomichi

Matsuo Bashō with Hayakawa Ikutada (Illustrator), Cid Corman (Translator), Kamaike Susumu (Translator)

175 pages • first pub 1702 (editions)

nonfiction poetry travel adventurous reflective relaxing slow-paced
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Early one spring morning in 1689 Basho, arguably the greatest of all Japanese poets, accompanied by his friend and disciple Sora, set forth on foot from his hermitage in Edo (old Tokyo) on one final journey. This pilgrimage took him through the ba...

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