Basho The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho Spanish New Zealand in the 1980s

New Zealand in the 1980s

but has nevertheless been kept in the private sphere for a long time

Text by Dalie Giroux

one of New Zealand’s foremost writers of the twentieth century

in addition to several artist monographs and exhibition catalogs

Basho The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho Spanish New Zealand in the 1980sA lavish collectors edition of the complete poems of eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashwith a new index that contains the full Japanese text of the original poems. Matsuo Bash (16441694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bash: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bash offers in English a full picture of the haiku of Bash, 980 poems in all. In Fitzsimonss beautiful rendering, Bash