I Wish I Could Be Called Traveler: Haiku by Matsuo Basho 300
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Haiku is an extremely important literary genre with Japanese characteristics, and Matsuo Basho is known as the "Saint Haiku". He is the first master of classical haiku and the haiku artist who pushed the art of haiku to its highest peak. Basho is to haiku what Du Fu is to Tang poetry. Basho's haiku not only inherits the classical tradition of Chinese poetry and Japanese waka, but also does not shy away from mixing in daily colloquialisms. It captures the essence of comedy and is full of the spirit of free creation. Basho is good at capturing the absolute loneliness in daily life and the colors of sound and fragrance in quiet moments, such as the fragrance of leaves when they are heated by sunlight in the morning and dusk, or the faint sound of cold water when a frog leaps into an ancient pond. The poet uses this to show a passionate glimpse of nature in the eternal flow of time. The spirit of mourning for things in later Japanese literature and the spiritual sensitivity to all things in nature were mostly influenced by it. In his writing, the harmony of elegance and vulgarity in haiku has reached an unprecedented height. This book selects more than 300 haiku sentences that Basho wrote throughout his life, arranges them chronologically, and includes the original text, pronunciation and brief notes to aid appreciation.
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