Cross-course pages: Some reading suggestions for Matsuo Bashō

This page was developed for J144, which devoted the full semester to studying Bashō.

It lists some of the better resources in English for reading about Bashō.

Some JSTOR articles on Bashō

Some better than most English language sources for biographical information on Bashō

  • Narrow Road to the Interior, trans. by Sam Hamill
  • Traditional Japanese Poetry, ed. by Steven Carter
  • Bashō and His Interpreters, by Makoto Ueda
  • Matsuo Bashō, by Makoto Ueda
  • Bashō: Narrow Road to the Deep North, trans. by Nobuyuki Yuasa

 

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