The Ten Foot Square Hut - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ten Foot Square Hut write by Chōmei Kamo. This book was released on 1928. The Ten Foot Square Hut available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike
Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike write by . This book was released on 2011-08-30. Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers of medieval Japanese literature have long been captivated by its romance and philosophy. In this volume, two acclaimed thirteenth-century classics, The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike, are presented in translation. The Ten Foot Square Hut (the Hojoki) takes its title from a four and half mat sized Tearoom, the size of the hut in which the hero of the story, Chomei, lives. It offers the memorable reflections of this sensitive aristocrat who has retired from a world filled with violent contrasts and cataclysms to find refuge in nature and Buddhist philosophy. Though this narrative was written 700 years ago, its message continues to have an astonishing timeliness. Tales of the Heike (selections from the Heike Monogatari) deals with the same period but from a different point of view, supplying the background of Chomei's meditations. It is a collection of episodic stories, written in poetical prose, related to the rise and fall of the Taira clan in twelfth-century Kyoto, one of the great turning points in Japanese history. The translations, by the late Professor A. L. Sandler, are complemented by an informed Introduction on the background to these masterpieces of Japanese literature.
Essays in Idleness
Essays in Idleness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays in Idleness write by Kenko. This book was released on 2013-12-05. Essays in Idleness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains, contemplating the impermanence of human existence. Kenko, however, displays a fascination with more earthy matters in his collection of anecdotes, advice and observations. From ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court, Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience. Meredith McKinney's excellent new translation also includes notes and an introduction exploring the spiritual and historical background of the works. Chômei was born into a family of Shinto priests in around 1155, at at time when the stable world of the court was rapidly breaking up. He became an important though minor poet of his day, and at the age of fifty, withdrew from the world to become a tonsured monk. He died in around 1216. Kenkô was born around 1283 in Kyoto. He probably became a monk in his late twenties, and was also noted as a calligrapher. Today he is remembered for his wise and witty aphorisms, 'Essays in Idleness'. Meredith McKinney, who has also translated Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book for Penguin Classics, is a translator of both contemporary and classical Japanese literature. She lived in Japan for twenty years and is currently a visitng fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. '[Essays in Idleness is] a most delightful book, and one that has served as a model of Japanese style and taste since the 17th century. These cameo-like vignettes reflect the importance of the little, fleeting futile things, and each essay is Kenko himself' Asian Student
Hojoki
Hojoki - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hojoki write by Kamo no Chomei. This book was released on 1998-07-01. Hojoki available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extraordinary literary work from the 12th century, a meditation on nature and mortality.
The Ten Foot Square Hut
The Ten Foot Square Hut - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ten Foot Square Hut write by Chōmei Kamo. This book was released on 1928. The Ten Foot Square Hut available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
