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    A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen » Read Now

    by Robert Aitken, Basho Matsuo. 192 pgs.

    ...Robert, 1917- / A Zen wave / 1. Matsuo, Basho, 1644-1694-- Criticism and interpretation...Buddhism in literature. / 3. Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694--Religion and ethics. / I...
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    Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk (Introduction to On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho" begins on p. 223) » Read Now

    by Susan Porterfield. 388 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Introduction to On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho 223 Preface to Crow with No...excellent introductions to his books of haiku by Basho and Issa, On Love and Barley: Haiku...
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    The Japanese Haiku, Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, with Selected Examples (Includes discussion of Basho in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Kenneth Yasuda. 240 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...of things without ideas. " 11 Basho himself, one of the greatest haiku...as is the haiku, concerning which Basho noted: "From ancient times, those...compare this with the...
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    A Net of Fireflies: Japanese Haiku and Haiku Paintings (Includes many haiku by Basho) » Read Now

    by Harold Stewart. 180 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...simple haiku by a master like Matsuo Basho is worth more than a whole loudly acclaimed...tender miniature such as this, in which Basho gives expression to what his...
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    Basho and the Mastery of Poetic Space in 'Oku No Hosomichi', in The Journal of the American Oriental Society » Read Now

    by Steven D. Carter. 9 pgs.

    ...that in his travel writings Matsuo Basho reveals himself to be a participant...to consider the practices of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), perhaps Japans most famous...Imoto...
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    Composing Zen Haiku: Training to Make Sense, in ETC.: A Review of General Semantics » Read Now

    by Stewart W. Holmes. 7 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...developed by a Japanese poet named Basho, who lived from 1644 to 1694. As a...reactions. Here are four haiku that Basho wrote. In the fish shop The gums...haiku describes a...
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    Anthology of Japanese Literature, from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Includes "The Narrow Road of Oku" and "Prose Poem on the Unreal Dwelling" by Matsuo Basho and "Haiku" by Basho and His School) » Read Now

    by Donald Keene, Donald Keene. 450 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This extensive anthology includes excerpts from plays and novels plus stories, fairy tales, and many poems.
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    Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment ("Basho, 1644-94" begins on p. 51) » Read Now

    by Joy A. Palmer, David E. Cooper, Peter Blaze Corcoran. 322 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy Palmer has assembled a team of over twenty expert contributors to summarize and analyze the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures from all over the world and from ancient times to the...

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