Summer Grasses, Autumn Wind: An Illustrated Translation of Basho's "Narrow Roads of the Deep North" (Oku no Hosomichi") (Color Edition) - Paperback
Summer Grasses, Autumn Wind: An Illustrated Translation of Basho's "Narrow Roads of the Deep North" (Oku no Hosomichi") (Color Edition) - Paperback
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by Dennis Kawaharada (Author)
A translation of Matsuo Basho's "Narrow Roads of the Deep North" ("Oku no Hosomichi") illustrated with color photos and Edo Period art and maps. The text includes a short biography and notes on literary, cultural, religious, geographical, and lunar-calendrical contexts, along with 262 footnotes notes explaining the details of references to these contexts. The 173 Illustrations include over 100 photographs taken on road trips between 2005-2017 documenting what the places and landscapes mentioned in the text look like today.
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