On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140444599 (0140444599)
Publish date: January 7th 1986
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 92
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Environment,
Nature,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Asian Literature,
Poetry,
Japan,
Buddhism,
Japanese Literature,
17th Century,
Poetry Plays
枯朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮枯れ枝に鴉のとまりけり 秋の暮（かれえだにからすのとまりけりあきのくれ）Kareeda niKarasu no tomarikeriAki no kure#1 transOn a bare branchA crow is perched -Autumn evening #2 On the dead limbsquats a crow -autumn night *#3 On a bare branch a crow has alighted autumn evening.#4A crowhas settled on a bare branchAutumn evenin...
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