Matsuo Basho: On Love and Barley - Haiku of Basho (1985)

ISBN: 9780140444599

Matsuo Basho: On Love and Barley - Haiku of Basho (1985)

ISBN: 9780140444599
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Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller.
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ISBN
9780140444599
Author
Matsuo Basho
Binding
Soft cover
Date of publication
1985
Edition number
1
Format
Book
Language
English
School book
No
His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a life free from possessions, and his haiku are the work of an observant eye and a meditative mind, uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him.