Basho and His Interpreters

Selected Hokku with Commentary

• Author(s): Makoto Ueda,
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Pages: 457
• ISBN_10: 0804725268
  ISBN_13: 9780804725262
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Poetry / Asian / General , Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese , Literary Criticism / Poetry ,

Description:... This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.