{"product_id":"bashos-haiku-journeys-9781611720693","title":"Basho's Haiku Journeys","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Freeman Ng | Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stone Bridge Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stone Bridge Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Poetry - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecipient of the 2021 Northern Lights Book Awards Poetry Category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaiku tell the story of the poet Basho and the diaries he wrote while walking throughout Japan in the 1600s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho practically invented the haiku. He's most famous for his travel journals. But how did he come to be such a traveler in the first place?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis delightful volume--composed entirely in haiku based on the poet's written travelogues and illustrated with vibrant hand-painted scenes--tells the true story of Basho's decision to abandon his comfortable city life and of the five great journeys he then took across the length and breadth of Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46316356501655,"sku":"9781611720693","price":1651.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781611720693.webp?v=1767709612","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bashos-haiku-journeys-9781611720693","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}