Compiled Makoto Ueda (2 results)

reprint softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo vi + 457pp., index, 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.…

Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: . Previous owners' name and date to the half-title page. The contents complete, clean and tight but with expansive notes to the last blank; Paperback; Measures 9" x 6" (1 kg); pp 457; Index; Translated by Makoto Ueda; Preface by Makoto Ueda; Includes: Parallel Japanese & English language text; Black & white photographs, within the text; Maps; Frontispiece; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #201441 ||.…