HC Episode 2: Basho's Frog

03/06/2009 10 min Episodio 2
HC Episode 2:  Basho's Frog

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Episode Synopsis

This episode of Haiku Chronicles takes us back to 16th century Japan when the first great Japanese master of haiku, Matsuo Basho wrote his breakthrough haiku, "Furu-Ike-Ya" (Old Pond). Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli discuss the poem's interesting history and its influence on the poetic form of haiku.