The face of the evening moon. Haiku

The great Japanese poet Matsuo Basa is rightly considered the creator of the Poetic Genre Hike now popular throughout the world. His efforts of three-style from purely playing, half-speaking poetry gradually turned into high poetic art, imbued with the spirit of Zen-Buddhist philosophy. In addition to the numerous haiku and the “clamped stanzas ", the literary heritage of the bass includes travel diaries, the most famous of which, on the paths of the North", along with the best poems, is presented in this publication. Basy"s work is so multifaceted that it is difficult to reduce to one denominator. He called himself a “sadder”, but he was a great world -lover. Reading the poems of Basyo, one should remember one thing: they are all short, but in each of them the poet was looking for a way from heart to heart