The Poetry of Bashō (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Matsuo Munefusa
- Type of Work: Verse and poetic prose
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Seventeenth century, Japan or Japanese people, Buddhism, Shinto
Critical Evaluation:
No poet in Japan has had a greater effect upon his contemporaries or his posterity or has been accorded greater acclaim and honor than Matsuo Bashō. Throughout Japan, wherever his poetic wanderings took him there are stone memorials, more than three hundred altogether, inscribed with his compositions and many mounds believed to contain objects he owned. Although his remains were buried in a Buddhist temple, on his centennial and sesquicentennial anniversaries he was deified in at least three Shinto shrines, one of which was actually named after two of the...
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