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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

Matsuo Bashō

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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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Pages:: 92 pages

Publication:: 1985

Publisher:: Penguin

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ISBN10:: 0140444599

ISBN13:: 9780140444599

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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

Matsuo Bashō

4.22/5 (1747 ratings)

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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.

Format:

Pages:: 92 pages

Publication:: 1985

Publisher:: Penguin

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 0140444599

ISBN13:: 9780140444599

kindle Asin:: B01BITDCLK

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