Author: Matsuo Basho

Brand: Penguin

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reprint

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 92

Release Date: 01-01-1986

model number: 9780140444599

Part Number: 9780140444599

Details: Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. 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.

EAN: 9780140444599

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English, Japanese