Temple Bells Die Out (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Keene, Donald, Travelers of a Hundred Ages, Henry Holt, 1989.

  This collection of essays comments on a number of Japanese diaries, including Bashō's.

• Ueda, Makoto, Basho and his Interpreters, Stanford University Press, 1991.

  Ueda provides selected haiku of Bashō and commentaries on them by various critics.

• — — , Matsuo Basho, Kodansha International, 1970.

  Ueda provides an accessible and detailed introduction to Bashō's life and writing in this lively study.

• Yasuda, Kenneth, The Japanese Haiku, Rutland, 1957.

  Yasuda uses Western literary aesthetics to discuss the aim and method of haiku.