Basho and His Interpreters

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Basho and His Interpreters is written by Makoto Ueda and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1503621928 (ISBN 10) and 9781503621923 (ISBN 13).

This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.