ENGLISH

On love and barley

By Lucien , Matsuo , Bashō; Matsuo , Bashō; Stryk

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN
9780141907772, 0141907770, 9781101491461, 1101491469
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (5956788 bytes)
Series
Penguin classics
Pages
92 pages: illustrations\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:16:32

Description

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.

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