A review by blue_caribou
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō

4.0

This is a lovely collection of Bashō's travel writings, though having read On Love and Barley immediately before, I was slightly disconcerted by the editorial decision to render his poetry in four-line stanzas. It did work to evoke more closely the true detail and atmosphere of the poems, however lost something of the free rhythm and expression for me. I would be interested to also read a translation in classic three line stanzas for comparison.