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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics)
by: Matsuo Basho

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 895
EAN: 9780140441857
ISBN: 0140441859
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: February 28, 1967
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 32000
Studio: Penguin Classics

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- Anything on Basho is great.
Anything on Basho is great. Even tought i can't agree with the author's choice of using a four line verse translation for the haiku. i think it gives a different rythm not intended. once you've read any three verse translation you'll know what i mean.

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- Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home...
As an English teacher in Japan on and off for the past 20 years, I am always asked, on meeting new students, why I came to Japan. The answer, for me, is simple: this book. You see, as a college senior, I found myself drifting in no direction, with no roots or life plan. A slacker? Perhaps. But as I studied for my last final exam, I stood to ward off sleep, stretched, and wandered aimlessly through the library stacks until I found myself immersed, by chance mind you, in the Japanese poetry section. I took out the first volume I saw, Basho's classic Narrow Road to the Deep North: I was hooked from the first line.

Is this story important?

I think so. For, in all honesty, this "little book" changed my life - it really is THAT good!

Although this 17th century text is obstensibly a travel diary of prose poems and haiku gathered from Basho's peripatetic wanderings through nothern ... Read More

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- Surprised...
This is a wonderful collection of travel sketches and poetry. Albeit, I was slightly disappointed in the translation and format. One who is used to the traditional 3 line haiku may have to relax their preconception of how a haiku should look. The other elements are there, except in an entry made by Basho himself whereas he noted that he'd neglected including a "season word." One would read this to relive the writer's journeys- the poetry, while closely associated with Basho, should be accepted as inspirations of the journey and not the reason for reading the collection.

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- Seminal work marred by questionable translation
"Narrow Road to the Deep North" is one of the classics of Japanese literature, and a seminal work by Matsuo Basho, possibly Japan's greatest poet. A wandering spirit, he traveled across his home nation during a time when travel was dangerous, arduous, and almost impossible to the average citizen. Not only did he perfect his medium, the haiku, during his travels, but he also introduced the rare sights of Japan to his audience, painting a canvas of imagery that few would ever be able to see with their own eyes.

Unfortunately,this classic work is not fully realized in this translation. The translator, Nobuyuki Yuasa, is himself not a native speaker of English. Poetic translation is difficult under any circumstances, and when translating into a non-native language the task is made even more difficult. Yuasa makes use of fairly grandiose English words where Basho used simple language, and he attempts ... Read More

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