Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered.
In Basho: The Complete Haiku, she accomplishes the feat with distinction..
To render the writers full body of work into English, Jane Reichhold, an American Haiku poet and translator, dedicated over ten years of work.
Until now.
Yet despite his stature, Bashos Complete Haiku have not been collected into a single volume.
Every new student of Haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters.
Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight.
Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered