
On Love and Barley : Haiku of Basho
by Matsuo Basho
Title:
On Love and Barley : Haiku of Basho
Author:
Matsuo Basho
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
96 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780140444599
EAN:
9780140444599
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
200
Dimensions (mm):
201 x 136 x 6
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a life free from possessions, and his haiku are the work of an observant eye and a meditative mind, uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him.













