A review by rjbedell
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō

adventurous reflective relaxing medium-paced

3.5

Lovely to read Bashō’s travel sketches — his travels around Japan are full of little observations of beauty and life.  I take issue with Nobuyuki Yuasa’s translations of the haiku — he usually adds his own embellishments, completely against the minimalist interest of the form, and turns them all from three lines into four.  Far better translations of many of these haiku have come along since.