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Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho

Basho

This is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Basho.

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the…

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Matsuo Basho

Presents travel writings which chronicle the author’s perilous journeys through Japan and also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him.

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Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years

Shortlisted for the NSW Translation Prize

Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West…

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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

Matsuo Basho

Presents the poems that combine ‘karumi’, or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation and evoke the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog…

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Basho

A lavish collector's edition of the complete poems of eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Basho.

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese…

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Robbie Basho

Robbie Basho's 13th album is now available for the first time on CD. Remastered from the original master recording, it has never sounded better. . Robbie Basho's 13th album is…

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Matsuo Basho

Presents travel writings which chronicle the author’s perilous journeys through Japan and also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Japanese Haiku: Major Works by Japan’s Best-Loved Poets - From Basho and Issa to Ryokan and Santoka, with Works by Six Women Poets (Free Online Audio)

William Scott Wilson

An old pond; a frog jumps in:
the sound of water This comprehensive introduction to Japan’s best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku…

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Robbie Basho Voice Of The Eagle Dvd

Robbie Basho

Feature-length documentary on the extraordinary life and visionary music of Robbie Basho. Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho is a feature-length documentary on the extraordinary life and…

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Voice Of The Eagle: The Enigma Of Robbie Basho

Robbie Basho

Feature-length documentary on the extraordinary life and visionary music of Robbie Basho. Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho is a feature-length documentary on the extraordinary life and…

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Live In Forli, Italy 1982

Robbie Basho

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Live In Forli, Italy 1982

Robbie Basho

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Robbie Basho

Robbie Basho's 13th album is now available for the first time on vinyl. Remastered from the original master recording, it has never sounded better.. Robbie Basho's 13th album is now…

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Oku No Hosomichi: The Narrow Road to the Interior

Matsuo Basho

Oku no Hosomichi is a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho considered one of the major texts of classical Japanese literature. The text is written in…

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Timothy and Sarah: The Homemade Cake Contest

Midori Basho

Originally published in Japan in 2010 by Poplar Publishing Co., Ltd.

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Basho’s Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho

Matsuo Basho

Offers the most comprehensive collection of Basho’s prose available, beautifully translated into English.

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Basho’s Haiku: Selected Poems of Matsuo Basho

Matsuo Basho

A wonderful new translation of the poetry of Basho-Zen monk, poet of nature, and master of the haiku form.

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Basho’s Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho

Matsuo Basho

Offers the most comprehensive collection of Basho’s prose available, beautifully translated into English.

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Walking with Basho

I don’t claim to have any profound answers or life changing insights; I’ll leave that to others. But I do believe that we need to make an effort to be…

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The Basho Variations

Steve McCaffery

The Basho Variations gathers thirty-four translations of Basho’s famous haiku. In doing so it enters an august (albeit scanty) lineage of maverick redactions of this poem that include (as inaugural)…

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Basho’s ‘Narrow Road

Basho Matsuo,Matsuo Basho

In 1689, Matsuo Basho set off on a five-month journey into the mountains north of the capital, Edo. On his journey, he composed a number of observational poems. This volume…

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A Narrow Road to the Interior

Basho Matsuo,Matsuo Basho

This is a single-volume collection of writings by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), including a travel diary and over 250 haiku, an art form he raised to a level of simplicity and…

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Song Of The Avatars Lost Master Tapes 5 Cd Box

Basho

Robbie Basho (1940-1986) is widely regarded as one of the progenitors of what's commonly known today as American Primitive guitar. Growing up in Maryland alongside neo-traditional guitar explorers John Fahey…

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The Complete Basho Poems

Keith Harrison, Dr (Idaho State Univ)

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Basho and the River Stones

Tim Myers

A magical young fox decides to trick the wise poet, Basho, into letting him have all the cherries from his tree, and turns three river stones into gold coins to…

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Basho: The Complete Haiku

Matsuo Basho,Jane Reichhold

Basho stands today as Japan’s most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of…

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Basho’s Haiku Journeys

Freeman Ng

Haiku tell the story of the poet Basho and the diaries he wrote while walking throughout Japan in the 1600s

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In the Wake of Basho: Bestiary in the Rock Garden

Yury Lobo

According to the author Yury Lobo this book just happened. After very intense submerging into Japanese culture, history, art and poetry one early morning the whole idea of the book…

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5-7-5 The Haiku Of Basho

John White,Kemmyo Tairo Sato

A seminal contribution to the corpus of Basho translations and the first to present English renditions in the original 5-7-5 form.

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A Zen Wave: Basho’s Haiku and Zen

Matsuo Basho,Robert Aitken,W. S. Merwin

The author of Taking the Path of Zen ponders Zen, the human mind, and the haiku of Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) the greatest Japanese haiku poet.

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