Basho and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary

Basho, Matsuo; Ueda, Makoto (compiled & translated)

Published by Stanford U. P. Stanford 1995

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reprint softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo vi + 457pp., index, 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basho and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary
• Publisher: Stanford U. P. Stanford 1995
• Binding: Soft cover