On Love And Barley
Author(s): Matsuo 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 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.
Product Information
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.08
- : 28 February 1985
- : 198mm X 129mm X 5mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : 96
- : 8604
- : Paperback
- : Matsuo Basho