Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 602 g
The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho (Collector's Edition)
Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 602 g
ISBN: 978-0-520-40073-3
Verlag: University of California Press
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 literature and the master of the haiku. Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho offers in English a full picture of the haiku of Basho, 980 poems in all.
In Fitzsimons’s beautiful rendering, Basho is much more than a philosopher of the natural world and the leading exponent of a refined Japanese sensibility. He is also a poet of queer love and eroticism; of the city as well as the country, the indoors and the outdoors, travel and staying put; of lonesomeness as well as the desire to be alone. Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho reveals how this work speaks to our concerns today as much as it captures a Japan emerging from the Middle Ages. For dedicated scholars and those coming upon Basho for the first time, this beautiful collector’s edition of Fitzsimons’s elegant award-winning translation, with the original Japanese, allows readers to enjoy these works in all their glory.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
Weitere Infos & Material
Contents
Basho Chronology
Introduction
THE POEMS
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Poems in Japanese (Romaji)
Index of Poems in Japanese
Index of First Lines of Poems in English
Index of Names
