Basho's Haiku, winner of the 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award, offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Basho. Basho (1644–1694) is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry.

One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Basho is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism. His poems contained a mystical quality and expressed universal themes through simple images from the natural world.

SUNY Press has generously donated this work to the Shambhala Sun Foundation's 2008 online auction.