Basho, The Chief Poet of Japan and the Hokku, or Epigram Verses
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"description": "LibriVox recording of Basho, The Chief Poet of Japan and the Hokku, or Epigram Verses by Matsuo Bash\u014d. (Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain.)Read in English and Japanese by Rob Marland and ekzemplaro.
During his lifetime, Bash\u014d was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku (then called hokku). He is quoted as saying, \u201cMany of my followers can write hokku as well as I can. Where I show who I really am is in linking haikai verses.\u201d This short anthology of haiku by Bash\u014d and his pupils features poetry in their original Japanese, with translations and commentary in English by Basil Hall Chamberlain, a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University. - Summary by Wikipedia and Rob Marland
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