Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) is Japan’s greatest poet, a wandering Zen master whose haiku helped define the essence of Japanese sensibility. But the real Bashō was far more complex than his image suggests.
In this talk, poet, translator and academic Andrew Fitzsimons takes a closer look at Bashō, showing how his popular image as a poet of nature is complicated by the poems he actually wrote. Fitzsimons, whose award-winning translation of Bashō’s complete works was published in 2022, reveals a multi-faceted character, a poet concerned not only with the natural world, but with the people of Edo-period Japan and with language itself.
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