{"product_id":"the-gate-by-natsume-soseki-copy","title":"Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times by Matsuo Basho","description":"\u003ch3 data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"294\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"294\"\u003eAVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"350\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoon Woke Me Up Nine Times \u003c\/em\u003eis a tender, circular meditation on love, reincarnation, and the small miracles that structure ordinary life. Each poem reads as an echo of the last, quietly suggesting that meaning isn’t linear but cyclical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"352\" data-end=\"799\"\u003eWritten by Matsuo Bashō, Japan’s most revered poet of the classical Edo period, this collection traces a life spent in motion. A bohemian wanderer of seventeenth-century Japan, Bashō predates Jack Kerouac by nearly three centuries. Where Kerouac wrote in fevered jazz-fueled bursts, Bashō wrote in short, enigmatic prose—\u003cem\u003ehaiku\u003c\/em\u003e (then known as \u003cem data-start=\"700\" data-end=\"707\"\u003ehokku\u003c\/em\u003e) and linked-verse \u003cem\u003erenku\u003c\/em\u003e—composing his journeys as meditations rather than manifestos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"1075\"\u003eBashō is a poet equally attuned to the subtleties of the natural world and the humility of human endeavors. Taken together, his writings reveal both poles of existence: the profound solitude of the observing mind and the boundless joy discovered in small acts of attention.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Another Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47678168432891,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/2064\/1275\/files\/Moon-Woke-Me-Up-Nine-Times.jpg?v=1762377972","url":"https:\/\/inanothercountry.co\/products\/the-gate-by-natsume-soseki-copy","provider":"Another Country","version":"1.0","type":"link"}