Basho and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary

This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.

• Author
• Makoto Ueda

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 468

• Publisher
• Stanford University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780804725262

• Genres
• poetry, japan

• Release date
• 1995