| Author/Contributor(s): | Ueda, Makoto |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Date: | 05/01/1995 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.