Back Roads to Far Towns : Bash̄o's Oku-no-hosomichi
Author: Bashō Matsuo
Publisher: New York] : Grossman Publishers
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
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Back Roads to Far Towns
Author: 松尾芭蕉
Publisher: White Pine Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781893996311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A classic translation of Basho's most famous travel journal
Back Roads to Far Towns
Author: Matsu Basho
Publisher:
Published: 1998-12
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780788154508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Matsuo Basho, arguably the greatest of all Japanese poets, wrote this diary of his pilgrimage in 1589 from Edo (old Tokyo) through the backlands & highlands of the capital, then across the island of Honshu & down the west coast toward Lake Biwa, a 2-year journey of nearly 1,500 miles. This evocative account of this arduous journey, the last of his travel diaries, is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of writing. Illustrated with black-&-white paintings by Hayakawa Ikutada. Preface by Robert Hass.
Back Roads to Far Towns
Author: Bashō Matsuo
Publisher: ltrungdoan
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780934834650
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Author: Matsuo Basho
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Matsuo Basho, perhaps the greatest of all Japanese poets, has been called "Nature's pilgrim." Toward the middle of his career he wrote, "Traveller's my name ...," and travel was, in fact, with haiku, one of the central facts of his existence. He spent much of his life wandering through Japan seeking nature and history, poverty and simplicity, friends and solitude, and poetry: " ... I have lived a life of painful wanderings with wind and cloud, racking my brains over poems about flowers and birds." ... --Grossman Publishers, Inc. Donated by Judy Sackheim, 10/2011.
Back Roads to Far Towns
Author: Bashō Matsuo
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One spring morning in 1689, Basho, arguably the greatest of all Japanese poets, set forth on foot, accompanied by his friend and disciple Sora, from his hermitage in Edo (old Tokyo) on one final journey--a pilgrimage that eventually took him nearly 1,500 miles. Now, more than 300 years later--via beautifully spare prose sprinkled with haiku and graceful translation--this book provides the account of Basho's arduous trek. 16 illustrations.
Pageant of Seasons
Author: Helen Stiles Chenoweth
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 146291246X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of Japanese haiku written by an American poet Helen Chenoweth. The author has used a language that is all American in association, but very much enriched by her love for things Japanese. "Poetry in Japan is as universal as air. It is read by everybody, composed by almost everybody, irrespective of class and condition." This statement by Lafcadio Hearn deeply impressed Helen Chenoweth. In course of her comprehensive studies in the art of writing and teaching poetry, she became enchanted by the Japanese haiku, in which the subtlest meanings and feelings can be expressed in three short lines. Pageant of Seasons offers many lyrical haiku, some of which are centered around the Pacific Ocean. Other haiku show nature in all its facets of growing. These poems create a kaleidoscope of charming images and experiences to which each of us will attach his own meanings.
Bashō's Journey
Author: Matsuo Bashō
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010-03-29
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0791483436
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Bashō's Journey, David Landis Barnhill provides the definitive translation of Matsuo Bashō's literary prose, as well as a companion piece to his previous translation, Bashō's Haiku. One of the world's greatest nature writers, Bashō (1644–1694) is well known for his subtle sensitivity to the natural world, and his writings have influenced contemporary American environmental writers such as Gretel Ehrlich, John Elder, and Gary Snyder. This volume concentrates on Bashō's travel journal, literary diary (Saga Diary), and haibun. The premiere form of literary prose in medieval Japan, the travel journal described the uncertainty and occasional humor of traveling, appreciations of nature, and encounters with areas rich in cultural history. Haiku poetry often accompanied the prose. The literary diary also had a long history, with a format similar to the travel journal but with a focus on the place where the poet was living. Bashō was the first master of haibun, short poetic prose sketches that usually included haiku. As he did in Bashō's Haiku, Barnhill arranges the work chronologically in order to show Bashō's development as a writer. These accessible translations capture the spirit of the original Japanese prose, permitting the nature images to hint at the deeper meaning in the work. Barnhill's introduction presents an overview of Bashō's prose and discusses the significance of nature in this literary form, while also noting Bashō's significance to contemporary American literature and environmental thought. Excellent notes clearly annotate the translations.
Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan
Author: Anne Giblin Gedacht
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-11-28
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 900452794X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1870, a prominent samurai from Tōhoku sells his castle to become an agrarian colonist in Hokkaidō. Decades later, a man also from northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels to Brazil and writes a book that wins the first-ever Akutagawa Prize. In the 1940s, residents from the same area proclaim that they should lead Imperial Japan in colonizing all of Asia. Across decades and oceans, these fractured narratives seem disparate, but show how mobility is central to the history of Japan’s Tōhoku region, a place often stereotyped as a site of rural stasis and traditional immobility, thereby collapsing boundaries between local, national, and global studies of Japan. This book examines how multiple mobilities converge in Japan’s supposed hinterland. Drawing on research from three continents, this monograph demonstrates that Tohoku’s regional identity is inextricably intertwined with Pacific migrations.
Basho and His Interpreters
Author: Makoto Ueda
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780804725262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.
