num_pages: 92
description: Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a life free from possessions, and his haiku are the work of an observant eye and a meditative mind, uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him.
language: Hindi
title: On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
titlecomplete: On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
genres: Buddhism, Fiction, Japan, Classics, Philosophy, Japanese Literature, Asia, Literature, 17th Century, Poetry
ratings_count: 1673
places: Japan
publisher: Penguin