Summer Grasses, Autumn Wind: An Illustrated Translation Of Basho's ""Narrow Roads Of The Deep North" (Oku No Hosomichi") (Black And White Edition)

A translation of Matsuo Basho's "Narrow Roads of the Deep North" ("Oku no Hosomichi") illustrated with black-and-white photos and Edo Period art and maps. The text includes a short biography and notes on literary, cultural, religious, geographical, and lunar-calendrical contexts, along with 262 footnotes notes explaining the details of references to these contexts. The 173 Illustrations include over 100 photographs taken on road trips between 2005-2017 documenting what the places and landscapes mentioned in the text look like today.

• | Author: Dennis Kawaharada
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 13, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 180 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1548867276
• | ISBN-13: 9781548867270