Haiku People: Big And Small In Poems And Prints
Stephen Addiss
112 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0834804174
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Language: English
Publish: May 1, 1998
Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of people of various shapes and sizes, young and old—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems appear both in skillful English translation, as well as in the original Japanese.