Essays in Idleness

and Hojoki

Translated by : Meredith McKinney
By (author) : Kenko, Chomei
Publishers: Penguin Books Ltd
Print Format: Paperback

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Offers two works on life's fleeting pleasures by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. This book includes ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court.

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[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

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Title	Essays in Idleness
Translated by	Meredith McKinney
By (author)	Kenko, Chomei
Publishers	Penguin Books Ltd
Language of text	English
Original language of a translated text	Japanese
ISBN	9780141192109
Product Form	Paperback
Height	198 mm
Width	129 mm
Thickness	13 mm
Unit weight	168 gr