The Narrow Road To Oku

by Matsuo Basho

The Narrow Road To Oku

  • ISBN-13: 9784770020284
  • Author(s): Matsuo Basho
  • Illustrated by: Miyata Masayuki
  • Subject: Poetry by individual poets|poetry & poets
  • Publisher: Kodansha Europe Head Office
  • Imprint: Kodansha USA
  • Publication Date: 01-04-1997
  • Format: p/b

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This bilingual edition of The Narrow Road to Oku' features a translation by Donald Keene and original kiri-e illustrations by Miyata Masayuki. In the account which he named The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho makes a journey lasting 150 days, in which he travels, on foot, a distance of 600 ri. This was three hundred years ago, when the average distance covered by travelers was apparently 9 ri per day, so it is clear that Basho, who was forty years old at the time, possessed a remarkably sturdy pair of walking legs. Nowadays with the development of all sorts of means of'
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This bilingual edition of The Narrow Road to Oku' features a translation by Donald Keene and original kiri-e illustrations by Miyata Masayuki. In the account which he named The Narrow Road to Oku, Basho makes a journey lasting 150 days, in which he travels, on foot, a distance of 600 ri. This was three hundred years ago, when the average distance covered by travelers was apparently 9 ri per day, so it is clear that Basho, who was forty years old at the time, possessed a remarkably sturdy pair of walking legs. Nowadays with the development of all sorts of means of'

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