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'It was with awe That I beheld Fresh leaves, green leaves, Bright in the sun' When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels d...

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'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haiku Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with b...

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'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haikuIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around 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 th...

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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 ...

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'It was with aweThat I beheldFresh leaves, green leaves,Bright in the sun'When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels designed to str...

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In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels d...

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Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master. Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the nat...

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Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natu...

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A beautiful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature.Bashō (1644–1694)—a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—i...

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Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Ja...

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Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself by brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. The haiku verse form is a superb means of studying Zen modes of thought and expression, for its seventeen syllables impose a rigorous limitation tha...

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Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west o...

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A beautiful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature. Basho (1644-1694)-a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty-is renowned in the West...

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"The travel writings of Matsuo Bash are of enormous literary importance, and so it is a joy to see them collected in this compact volume, in translations of exemplary elegance, faithfulness, and accessibility. The annotations are especially v...

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"The travel writings of Matsuo Bash are of enormous literary importance, and so it is a joy to see them collected in this compact volume, in translations of exemplary elegance, faithfulness, and accessibility. The annotations are especially v...

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The most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan, Matsuo Basho was of samurai descent and a Zen Buddhist, who became a master of haiku. He helped create a new style of poetry, capturing the meaning of the world into simple poetry. His work is celeb...

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Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north ...

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Basho, dessen Dichtername sich von der Bananenstaude über seiner Hütte herleitet, hat mit seinem Werk das Haiku zu einer Kunstform gemacht. Die Plötzlichkeit, mit der im Haiku ein Bild entsteht, ist heute zum universellen poetischen Ideal geworden...

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Matsuo Bashôs Reisetagebuch "Auf schmalen Pfaden durchs Hinterland" (1689) gehört zu den Meisterwerken der Weltliteratur. Vor dem Hintergrund einer monatelangen Wanderung durch Japan entstand ein Dokument meditativer Selbstaneignung. Mit...

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Haibun sind ein vom westlichen Lesepublikum noch nicht entdecktes Genre der japanischen Dichtkunst: zumeist kürzere Prosatexte in einem konzisen, dem Geist des Haiku verpflichteten Stil, das die betrachtende Darstellung lyrisch sublimiert. Als Sch...

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Die drei herausragenden Beispiele der ostasiatischen Literatur in diesem Band beschwören die über Jahrhunderte hinwegungebrochene Faszination des Lebens in einer einfachen Hütte in der Natur. Der Tang-Dichter Bai Juyi (618-907), derbuddhistische L...

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Junger Spatz, Glyzinienblüten, Reisährenduft - nirgendwo ist die Aufmerksamkeit für den jahreszeitlichen Wandel der Natur größer als in Japan. Mit dem reich illustrierten Taschenkalender lässt sich das Glück solch naturnaher Erfahrungen miterleben...

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Deeply emotional and empathetic, the loyal and gentle Cancer will feel your pain and sincerely celebrate your victories. Its dark side hides a tendency to resentment and manipulation. In this book you will find seven short stories specially select...

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Motherhood is defined in the dictionary as "e;the experience of having and raising a child"e;. But we know that there is much more to motherhood than the simplicity of this definition. The stories in this book were inspired by purity and p...

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El autor narra lo que experimenta a cada paso. Esa capacidad suya de transmitir experiencia lo sitúa de cuajo en nuestra actualidad de lectores deseosos, como él, de vivir a fondo lo que nos toca y, en lo posible, certificarlo, exteriorizarlo, d...

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