Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Oku-No-Hosomichi (Corman & Susumu) by Kamaike Susumu, Hayakawa Ikutada, Cid Corman, Matsuo Bashō

Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Oku-No-Hosomichi (Corman & Susumu)

Kamaike Susumu, Hayakawa Ikutada, Cid Corman, Matsuo Bashō

173 pages • first pub 1702 (editions)

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

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