Matsuo Basho (1644-1694):

Recommended Background Texts:

• Basho, Matsuo, Basho, Matsuo, Back Roads to Far Towns, trans. Cid Corman & Kamaike Susumu (1986) (on order)
• -----, On Love and Barley, trans. Lucien Stryk (1985) PL794.4.A27 1985
  
• -----, The Monkey's Straw Raincoat, trans. Earl Miner & Hiroko Odagiri (1981)
  (on order)
  
• -----, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, trans. Nobuyuki Yuasa (1966) PL794.4 .A29 1966 .
  
• Carter, Steven D., Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991) PL782.E3T7 1991
  
• Henderson, Harold G., An Introduction to Haiku (1958) (on order)
  
• Keene, Donald, Travelers of a Hundred Ages (Japanese Diaries) (1989) PL741.K44 1989
  
• -----, World Within Walls (1976) (on order)
• Ueda, Makoto, Basho and His Interpreters (1992) PL794.4.Z5U39 1992
  
• -----, Matsuo Basho (1970) PL794.4.Z5 U4
  
• Yasuda, Kenneth, The Japanese Haiku (1957) (on order)