Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho

A lavish collector’s edition of the complete poems of eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashō―​with a new index that contains the full Japanese text of the original poems.
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho offers in English a full picture of the haiku of Basho, 980 poems in all. Andrew Fitzsimons’ translation is the first to adhere strictly to form: all of the poems are translated following the syllabic count of the originals. This book also translates a number of Basho’s headnotes to poems ignored by previous English-language translators.

This book is in a hardback format and measures 14 x 21.6 x 3.3 cm.

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