This bilingual haiku collection is a tribute to Oku no hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 1702) by Matsuo BashM("BashM" hereafter, 1644-November 1694). BashM was the grand master of haiku during the Edo period. He is referred to as the "haiku saint" for his contributions to perfecting haiku as an art form and establishing haiku as a genre in poetry in its own right, which was the initial phrase ( hokku ) to lead 'chain haikai poetry'( renku ) of group haikai reading. Oku no hosomichi , a masterpiece by BashM, ...
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This bilingual haiku collection is a tribute to Oku no hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 1702) by Matsuo BashM("BashM" hereafter, 1644-November 1694). BashM was the grand master of haiku during the Edo period. He is referred to as the "haiku saint" for his contributions to perfecting haiku as an art form and establishing haiku as a genre in poetry in its own right, which was the initial phrase ( hokku ) to lead 'chain haikai poetry'( renku ) of group haikai reading. Oku no hosomichi , a masterpiece by BashM, is a travel journal with essays and his own haikus, as well as his disciples' haikus. This journal includes many of his best-known haikus. Although he wrote more haikus afterwards, this is one of the last haiku anthologies he complied, and in this sense it was his swan song. This haiku collection (2021) presents all of the 50 haikus BashM wrote in Oku no hosomichi in the exact order in which he compiled them (he sometimes did not follow the chronological order and fictionalized his journal), along with English translations and annotations. For each of BashM's haikus, an original haiku by this author, inspired by this particular haiku of BashM and using the same season word (or equivalent season word) is given-first in Japanese and then in English. This method of presenting the haikus by BashM, followed by this author's haikus, seems appropriate, as haiku started out as the initial phrase of the chain haikai poetry for the participants to follow in a haikai reading session. Now, readers can vicariously embark on the journey to the deep north of Japan. Enjoy!
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