This book has a dual purpose.
About the Author: Makoto Ueda is Professor of Japanese at Stanford University..
The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical Commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.
The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative Hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre.
This book has a dual purpose