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Title: Basho and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku With Commentary by Makoto Ueda, Basho Poems Matsuo ISBN: 0-8047-2526-8 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $31.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Overview of a Master
Comment: This is a great book just to browse at random. The interpretations given after each haiku are an interesting twist. Reading them after letting the haiku soak in is somewhat like sharing the poems with other enthusiasts. Some of them also shed a fascinating light on the circumstances of their composition and Basho's attitudes. And if haiku just makes you scratch your head, the remarks will show you interesting ways of looking at each one. Ueda helpfully adds biographical sketches between sections to put the poems into context and provides the original Japanese and word for word translations, and although I have found better translations of individual poems, his are adequate at least and often elegant. Basho of course is great, and this is the perfect book to linger over when you're in a thoughtful mood.

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