Narrow Road to the Interior av Matsuo Basho, Sam Hamill

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<b>A masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature—part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakening</b><br><br>Bashō (1644–1694)—a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is renowned in the West as the author of <i>Narrow Road to the Interior</i>,<i></i>a travel diary of linked prose and haiku recounting his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. <br><br>This edition, part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series, features a masterful translation of this celebrated work. It also includes an insightful introduction by translator Sam Hamill detailing Bashō’s life and the art of haiku, three other important works by Bashō—<i>Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones</i>,<i> The Knapsack Notebook</i>,<i></i>and <i>Sarashina Travelogue</i>—and two hundred and fifty of his finest haiku,