| Included Work | Contains (expression): Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694. Oku no hosomichi. |
| Included Work | Contains (expression): Matsuo, Bashō, 1644-1694. Oku no hosomichi. English. |
| Included Work | Keene, Donald translator. |
| Included Work | Miyata, Masayuki, 1926-1997 illustrator. |
| Abstract |
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 transportation, travel l is guaranteed to be pleasant and convenient in every respect, so it's almost impossible for us to imagine the kind of journey Basho undertook, "drifting with the clouds and streams," and "lodging under trees and on bare rocks." This translation is illustrated with Mayaski's works produced for the exhibition marking the thirtieth anniversary of his career as an artist with the Narrow road to Oku as the theme. |
| Language | Japanese text, parallel English translation. |
| ISBN | 1568365845 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781568365848 paperback |
