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Lesley Downer on poetry in Japan’s deep north

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Lesley Downer's fascination with Japan's most famous poet took her from Tokyo's drab industrial concrete into what was then a seldom-visited part of Honshu.

It was a place of sake-drenched poetry sessions in thatched-roof highland villages, and holy mountains where modern ascetics continued to roam between their past and future lives in search of atonement. Her book about this journey, On The Narrow Road to the Deep North, was reissued by Eland in 2024.

We spoke about Matsuo Basho’s haiku, mountain ascetics and Japan’s undiscovered north.

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49 episoder

#Society #Travel #Books #Arts #Ryan Murdock

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Lesley Downer on poetry in Japan’s deep north

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Lesley Downer's fascination with Japan's most famous poet took her from Tokyo's drab industrial concrete into what was then a seldom-visited part of Honshu.

It was a place of sake-drenched poetry sessions in thatched-roof highland villages, and holy mountains where modern ascetics continued to roam between their past and future lives in search of atonement. Her book about this journey, On The Narrow Road to the Deep North, was reissued by Eland in 2024.

We spoke about Matsuo Basho’s haiku, mountain ascetics and Japan’s undiscovered north.

… continue reading

49 episoder

#Society #Travel #Books #Arts #Ryan Murdock

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