Author: Matsuo Basho

In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow ...

The travel writings of Matsuo Bash are of enormous literary importance, and so it is a joy to see them collected in this compact volume, in transla...

''Nothing more lonely -'' A selection of Basho''s most magical haikuIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin''s 80th birthday. Litt...

The travel writings of Matsuo Bash are of enormous literary importance, and so it is a joy to see them collected in this compact volume, in transla...

Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre...