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Translated by Sam Hamill (Shambhala Press, paperback)
Publication Date: May 14, 2019
Publisher Marketing: A masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature–part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakening
Bashō (1644-1694)–a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty–is renowned in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku recounting his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan.
This edition, part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series, features a masterful translation of this celebrated work. It also includes an insightful introduction by translator Sam Hamill detailing Bashō’s life and the art of haiku, three other important works by Bashō– Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones, The Knapsack Notebook, and Sarashina Travelogue–and two hundred and fifty of his finest haiku, making this the most complete single-volume collection of Bashō’s writings.
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