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Back Roads To Far Towns : Basho's Travel Journal, Paperback / softback Book

Back Roads To Far Towns : Basho's Travel Journal Paperback / softback

Part of the Companions for the Journey series

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Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan.

He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals.

This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi, details the most arduous part of a nine-month journey with his friend and disciple, Sora, through the backlands north of the capital, west to the Japan Sea and back toward Kyoto.

More than a record of the journey, Basho's journal is a poetic sequence that has become a centre of the Japanese mind/heart.

Ten illustrations by Hide Oshiro illuminate the text.

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