num_pages: 124
description: In the seventeenth century, the pilgrim-poet Basho undertook on foot a difficult and perilous journey to the remote northeastern provinces of Honshu, Japan's main island. Throughout the five-month journey, the master of haiku kept a record of his impressions in a prose-poetry diary latercalled The Narrow Road to a Far Province. His diary was to become one of the classics of Japanese literature.Noted professor of Japanese literature J. Thomas Rimer wrote of this classic: "In his diary, which Basho kept reworking and revising until his death, he mixed fact, fiction, poetry, and prose to create the record of a journey that moves both geographically and spiritually, one strand mixing with theother on virtually every page. Read and reread with care, The Narrow Road to a Far Province can reveal more qualities still basic to Japanese cultural attitudes than perhaps any other work in the whole canon of classical literature. For once, the highest of reputations is truly deserved."This new edition is illustrated with sumi-e ink sketches by Japanese artist Shiro Tsujimura.
language: Multiple languages
title: A Haiku Journey: Bashō's Narrow Road to a Far Province
titlecomplete: A Haiku Journey: Bashō's Narrow Road to a Far Province
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: Kodansha USA