| Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal Contributor(s): Basho (Author), Corman, Cid (Translator) |
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ISBN: 189399631X ISBN-13: 9781893996311 Publisher: White Pine Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2004 Annotation: Basho (16441694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, "Oku-No-Hosomichi," details the most arduous part of a nine-month journey with his friend and disciple, Sora, through the backlands north of the capital, west to the Japan Sea and back toward Kyoto. More than a record of the journey, Basho's journal is a poetic sequence that has become a center of the Japanese mind/heart. Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text. Cid Corman was well-known as a poet, translator and editor of "Origin," the ground-breaking poetry magazine. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Japan - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Poetry | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 895.613 |
| LCCN: 2004109162 |
| Series: Companions for the Journey |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5" W x 7.04" (0.21 lbs) 93 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi, details the most arduous part of a nine-month journey with his friend and disciple, Sora, through the backlands north of the capital, west to the Japan Sea and back toward Kyoto. More than a record of the journey, Basho's journal is a poetic sequence that has become a center of the Japanese mind/heart. Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text. Cid Corman was well-known as a poet, translator and editor of Origin, the ground-breaking poetry magazine. |