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Book Title: Basho : the Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho
Item Length: 7.7in
Item Height: 1.3in
Item Width: 5in
Author: Basho
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Asian / Japanese, Linguistics / General, Haiku
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 472 Pages
