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The spring of my life : and selected haiku / Kobayashi Issa ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill ; illustrated by Kaji Aso.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kobayashi, Issa, 1763-1827, author.
- Series:
- Shambhala pocket library
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Kobayashi, Issa, 1763-1827--Translations into English.
- Kobayashi, Issa.
- Kobayashi, Issa, 1763-1827.
- Japanese poetry--Translations into English.
- Japanese poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala, 2019.
- Language Note:
- Haiku in English and Japanese.
- Summary:
- Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho's famous Narrow Road to the Interior. This edition also includes more than 160 of Issa's most revered haiku and an introduction that provides essential background on Issa's life as well as valuable information on translating (and reading) haiku. -- Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611806939
- 1611806933
- OCLC:
- 1054834896
- Publisher Number:
- 99981238368
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