Basho and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai.0824828453 Basho Basho (Matsuo Basho) (mät`s  ō bä`shō), 1644–94, Japanese poet, critic, and essayist of the early Edo period. and the Dao; the Zhuangzi Zhuangzior Chuang-tzu (born c. 369, Meng, China—died 286 BCE) Most significant early Chinese interpreter of Daoism and the purported author of the Daoist classic that bears his name. and the transformation of Haikai. Qiu, Peipei. U. of Hawai'i Pr. 2005 248 pages $50.00 Hardcover BL1900 Qui (Japanese, Vassar College Vassar College (văs`ər), at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; coeducational; chartered 1861 by Matthew Vassar, opened 1865 as Vassar Female College, renamed 1867. ) explains how Japanese poets adapted the Chinese Daoist classics, particularly the Zhuangzi during the 17th century, a movement that contributed to the transformation of haikai, the comic linked verse that gave birth to the modern haiku haiku (hī`k ), an unrhymed Japanese poem recording the essence of a moment keenly perceived, in which nature is linked to human nature. , from an
entertaining pastime to a serious art. Central to her story is the
poetry of Basho Matsuo (1644-94).
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