by Basho Matsuo (Author), Makoto Ueda (Editor)
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 second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 468
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 31 May 1995
ISBN 10: 0804725268
ISBN 13: 9780804725262