From the Renga Masters to Basho
by
Steven D. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku...