Basho And The Fox is a Marshall Cavendish publication.

The great poet Basho lives in the woods and shares the cherries from his cherry tree with the local foxes. But one tricky fox becomes greedy--he uses his magic

Haiku tell the story of the poet Basho and the diaries he wrote while walking throughout Japan in the 1600s

This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japa