Back Roads To Far Towns

Basho's Travel Journal

By: Basho, Cid Corman (Translator)

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Paperback | 1 October 2004

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128 Pages

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17.7 x 12.7 x 0.7

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Basho (1644–1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi, details the most arduous part of a nine-month journey with his friend and disciple, Sora, through the backlands north of the capital, west to the Japan Sea and back toward Kyoto. More than a record of the journey, Basho’s journal is a poetic sequence that has become a center of the Japanese mind/heart. Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text.

Cid Corman was well-known as a poet, translator and editor of Origin, the ground-breaking poetry magazine.

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"Of the half dozen English versions of Basho's most famous travel journal, Corman's is the best. He recreates the unique toughness and terseness of Basho's original language, crossing the translation barrier..." -- William J Higginson.

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