Matsuo Bashô : Choix de haïkus forthcoming from Éditions Avant-Quart
Éditions Avant-Quart, an independent press established in France in 1966 by Jean-Paul Cathala and Jacques Giacometti, will publish Matsuo Bashô : Choix de haïkus in 2021. In addition to a foreword by Kuni Matsuo and the haikus of Bashō translated by Kuni Matsuo and E. Steinilber-Oberlin, the book includes “Un récit des derniers jours de notre maître Bashô,” my translation of an essay by Takarai Kikaku, one of Bashō’s disciples, as well as sumptuous illustrations of woodcuts by Hokusai.
Bashō, by Hokusai