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Basho elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty. Basho 16441694a great luminary of asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beautyis renowned in the west as the author of narrow road to the interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku recounting his journey through the far northern. Known also by the title narrow road to the north, narrow road to the interior and other writings collates several travelogues and hundreds of haiku written by the japanese master basho. And other writings up to now about the publication we now have narrow road to the interior.
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The first edition was published posthumously in 1702. Narrow road to the interior and other writings rent. And other writings shambhala classics paperback new from. Basho 16441694who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beautyis best known in the west as the author of narrow road to the interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of japan. The forms in such poetry lend themselves only to brevity, moments of keen observation, epiphanies without with long stories leading into them. The text is written in the form of a prose and verse travel diary and was penned as basho made an epic and dangerous journey on foot through the edo japan of the late 17th century.
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