num_pages: 128
description: Basho (1644–1694) 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, Basho’s 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.
language: English
title: Backroads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal
titlecomplete: Backroads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Travel, Buddhism, Japan, Asia, Japanese Literature, Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 5029
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Premi de Traducció Vidal Alcover
category: Jordi Mas López
publisher: White Pine Press