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Translated by Sam Hamill (ShambhalaPress,paperback)

Publication Date:May 14, 2019

Publisher Marketing:A masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature–part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakening

Bash (1644-1694)–a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty–is renowned in the West as the author ofNarrow Road to the Interior,a travel diary of linked prose and haiku recounting his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan.

This edition, part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series, features a masterful translation of this celebrated work. It also includes an insightful introduction by translator Sam Hamill detailing Bash’s life and the art of haiku, three other important works by Bash–Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones,The Knapsack Notebook,andSarashina Travelogue–and two hundred and fifty of his finest haiku, making this the most complete single-volume collection of Bash’s writings.