Matsuo Basho Books
The Narrow Road to Oku
By Matsuo Basho Translated By Donald Keene
In the account which he named "The Narrow Road to Oku," Basho makes a journey lasting 150 days, in which he travels, on foot, a distance of 600 ri.This was three hundred years ago, when the average...
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The essential Basho
By Basho Matsuo
The Essential Basho is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644-1694) - who elevated the haiku to an art form of ut...
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A Zen Wave
By Matsuo Basho
Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself by brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. The haiku verse form is a superb means of studying Zen modes of thought and expression, for its se...
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