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RELATED TOPIC:
BASHÔ'S NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH

RELATED TOPIC:
CHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON (1653-1725)

RELATED TOPIC:
SAIKAKU (1642-1693)

RELATED TOPIC:
TOKUGAWA JAPAN

 
BASHÔ, MASTER OF THE HAIKAI
AND HAIKU FORMS

Bibliography

An Introduction to Haiku
By Harold Gould Henderson
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, 1958

Haikai and Haiku
Edited and translated by the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai
Tokyo: Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 1958

Matsuo Bashô
By Makoto Ueda
Kodansha International, 1982

"The Poetry of Matsuo Bashô"
By Haruo Shirane
In Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective, edited by Barbara Stoler Miller
Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1994

 

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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Edited by Donald Keene
New York: Grove Press, 1960

"The Imaginative Universe of Japanese Literature"
By Haruo Shirane
In Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective, edited by Barbara Stoler Miller
Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1994

World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867
By Donald Keene
New York: Columbia University Press, 1999