num_pages: 152
description: Here are more than two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators. The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
language: English
title: The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets
titlecomplete: The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
genres: Buddhism, Japan, Japanese Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 398
publisher: Shambhala