Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes beautiful Japanese-style illustrations by Stephen Addiss.
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“Lucid and engaging, this translation, a gift of careful attention, does not separate poetry from spiritual practice. Basho becomes our guide on the way of insight. Such is the magic for a fine translation.”—Margaret Gibson, Tricycle
“Sam Hamill achieves a kind of luminosity of language that I find unparalleled in other translations.”—Burton Watson
“Sam Hamill achieves a kind of luminosity of language that I find unparalleled in other translations.”—Burton Watson
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese
Original Language: Japanese
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A very nice book -a long meditation in life. And it is good in it's size to have in the pocket.
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