DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

5-7-5 The Haiku Of Basho

John White author Kemmyo Taira Sato author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The Buddhist Society

Published:14th Mar '19

Should be back in stock very soon

5-7-5 The Haiku Of Basho cover

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is widely acknowledged as the greatest of all the Japanese haiku poets. In the original Japanese, the two defining features of the haiku form are its 5-7-5 sound unit format (the syllable being the corresponding unit in English) and its rhythm. This selection of three hundred of Basho's finest haiku represents the first successful strict translation into English haiku of what was actually written, some 350 years ago, by a genius of the form. The renditions are beautiful; the crucial cadences are retained.

ISBN: 9780901032546

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

360 pages