Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal

Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi, details the most arduous part of a nine-month journey with his friend and disciple, Sora, through the backlands north of the capital, west to the Japan Sea and back toward Kyoto. More than a record of the journey, Basho's journal is a poetic sequence that has become a center of the Japanese mind/heart. Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text.

Cid Corman was well-known as a poet, translator and editor of Origin, the ground-breaking poetry magazine.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: 10/01/2004
ISBN: 9781893996311
Pages: 93
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 7.04h x 5.00w x 0.30d

Review Citations: Multicultural Review 09/01/2005 pg. 18