On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
of Matsuo Bashō, Lucien Stryk (Translator)
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Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 92 pages
- Publisher Penguin
- Publication Date 1985
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780140444599
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
- Scenario ['Japan']
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