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9780791461662

Basho's Haiku : Selected Poems by Matsuo Basho

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791461662

  • ISBN10:

    0791461661

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-08-12
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Bash's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Bashō is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism. Born into the samurai class, Bashō rejected that world after the death of his master and became a wandering poet and teacher. During his travels across Japan, he became a lay Zen monk and studied history and classical poetry. His poems contained a mystical quality and expressed universal themes through simple images from the natural world. David Landis Barnhill's brilliant book strives for literal translations of Bashō 's work, arranged chronologically in order to show Bashō 's development as a writer. Avoiding wordy and explanatory translations, Barnhill captures the brevity and vitality ofthe original Japanese, letting the images suggest the depth of meaning involved. Barnhill also presents an overview of haiku poetry and analyzes the significance of nature in this literary form, while suggesting the importance of Bashō to contemporary American literature and environmental thought.

Table of Contents

PREFACE ix
SELECTED CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF MATSUO BASHO xi
INTRODUCTION: THE HAIKU POETRY OF MATSUO BASHO 1(18)
TRANSLATION OF THE HOKKU 19(136)
NOTES 155(114)
MAJOR NATURE IMAGES IN BASHOS HOKKU 269(10)
GLOSSARY 279(4)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 283(4)
INDEX TO BASHO'S HOKKU IN TRANSLATION 287(24)
INDEX TO BASHOS HOKKU IN JAPANESE 311(18)
INDEX OF NAMES 329

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