Basho: The Complete Haiku

Basho: The Complete Haiku

Basho stands today as Japan's most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly …

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