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Cent-cinq Haïkaï

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*Cent-cinq Haïkaï* presents a French-language selection of one hundred and five haikai by Matsuo Bashō, one of Japan’s most celebrated poets. The collection brings together brief, highly compressed poems rooted in seasonal observation, travel, and moments of quiet attention to the natural world. Bashō’s haikai often turn on a small image—a sound, a landscape detail, a passing encounter—and open it into a wider emotional or philosophical resonance. This edition preserves the concision and spare beauty of the form, inviting readers to move slowly from poem to poem. Its compact structure reflects the tradition of haikai as a poetic practice of immediacy and precision, where a few words can suggest memory, solitude, humor, or transience. Suitable for readers of poetry, Japanese literature, and meditative short-form verse, the book offers an accessible entry point into Bashō’s enduring influence on haiku and related poetic traditions.

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