The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa by Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, Matsuo Bashō

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa

Essential Haiku

Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, Matsuo Bashō with Robert Hass (Translator)

352 pages missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction poetry reflective slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observat...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...