Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho (Collector's Edition)

A lavish collector's edition of the complete poems of eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashō--​with a new index that contains the full Japanese text of the original poems.

Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bashō The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō offers in English a full picture of the haiku of Bashō, 980 poems in all.

In Fitzsimons's beautiful rendering, Bashō 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. Bashō The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō 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 Bashō for the first time, this beautiful collector's edition of Fitzsimons's elegant award-winning translation, with the original Japanese (including kanji, hiragana, and katakana), allows readers to enjoy these works in all their glory.

Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 09/03/2024
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.5lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780520400733

About the Author
Andrew Fitzsimons was born in Ireland and teaches at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. He has written on contemporary Irish and British poetry; translated Italian poets, including Dante, Montale, and Ungaretti; and published three volumes of poetry.