Author: Basho, translated from Japanese with an introduction by Nobuyuki Yuasa,
Title: Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches.
Description: Great Britain, Penguin, (1974). Reprint. VG PB. Japanese poet and diarist born in Iga-ueno near Kyoto in 1844 spent his youth as a companion to the son of the local lord and. with him studied the writing of 17-syllable verse. In 1667 he moved to Edo (now Tokyo) where he continued to write verse and eventually became a recluse, living on the outskirts of Edo in a hut. When he traveled he relied entirely on the hospitality of temples and fellow-poets. In his writings he was strongly influenced by the Zen sect of Buddhism. Owner name top of front endpaper. Some edge wear. Drawing of Basho on front cover shows a detail of a portrait of him in the Osaka Museum. This volume contains the travel sketches written in later life by Marsuo Basho (1644-94), greatest of the Japanese haiku poets. Zen Buddhism was a leading influence in the school of poetry he founded. His journeys through Japan are recoded in linked prose and verse, and the title piece of these sketches is a bid by the poet to discover a vision of eternity in nature and the ephemeral world about him.

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