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V etot sbornik voshli raboty Matsuo Baso raznykh let, sposobnyye pomoch' chitatelyu sostavit' yasnoye i chetkoye predstavleniye o stilistike cheloveka, fakticheski lichno sozdavshego zhanr, kotoromu predstoyalo stat' (i naveki ostat'sya) svoyeobraznym simvolom yaponskoy poezii, - khayku.Khayku, kotoroye do nego bylo chisto narodnym, komicheskim, sochno-grubovatym stikhotvornym zhanrom - i kotoroye on prevratil v sverkayushche-ottochennuyu, ideal'no chetkuyu v tekhnicheskom otnoshenii poeticheskuyu formu, v kotoroy peyzazhnaya i filosofskaya lirika slivayutsya v nechto yedinoye - tak, chto kartiny prirody stanovyatsya svoyeobraznoy illyustratsiyey dlya filosofskoy mysli.Poeziya Baso prosta i v to zhe vremya slozhna, polna tonchayshikh assotsiatsiy, izyashchnykh obrazov i pochti intuitivnykh dlya ponimaniya namekov, garmonichna i preispolnena chisto dzen-buddistskoy glubiny mysli - slovom, ona otnositsya k velichayshim literaturnym shedevram chelovechestva, nepodvlastnym khodu vremeni.