Back Roads To Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Back Roads To Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal
By (Author) Basho
Translated by Cid Corman
White Pine Press
White Pine Press
1st October 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
895.6132
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 127mm, Height 177mm, Spine 7mm
113g
Description
Basho (16441694) 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, Bashos 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.
Reviews
"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.
Author Bio
Cid Corman was well-known as a poet, translator and editor of Origin, the ground-breaking poetry magazine.
