On Love and Barley: The Haiku of Basho

German Poetry

Author: Matsuo Bashō

Librarian’s note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.,,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….Read More

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