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 | On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho (Penguin Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Matsuo Basho, Lucien Stryk (Translator), Lucien Trans.Intro.), Translator Lucien Stark, Bashō Matsuō Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 1986 ISBN-10: 0-14-044459-9 / 0140444599 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044459-9 / 9780140444599 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the sum | |