| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) |
| Series |
Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature |
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Rock spring collection of Japanese literature.
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| Contents |
Narrow road to the interior and the renga sequence -- A farewell gift to Sora |
| Summary |
Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen allusion and filled with great insights and vital rhythms. In Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages, poet and translator Hiroaki Sato presents the complete work in English and examines the threads of history, geograph |
| Analysis |
Authors, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868 Jouneys Japan |
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Japan Description and travel Early works to 1800 |
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Matsuo, Bashō Journeys Japan |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694 -- Travel -- Japan
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| SUBJECT |
Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694 fast |
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Matsuo, Bashō 1644-1694 gnd |
| Subject |
Authors, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Travel -- Japan
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Travel
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Tagebuch
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069399
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sato, Hiroaki, 1942-
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| ISBN |
9781611725278 |
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1611725275 |
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