Matsuo Basho: On Love and Barley - Haiku of Basho

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller.
ISBN: 9780140444599
Author: Matsuo Basho
Page: 92
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 1985
Format: Book
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Language: English

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Price: 2 990 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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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.

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