Author: Kenkō (is Yoshida no Kenkō)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Tsure-zure Gusa
Author: Kenkō (is Yoshida no Kenkō)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
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Tsure-zure Gusa
Author: Kenkō YoshidaPublisher:
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
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Tsure-dzure-gusa
Author: Yoshida KenkoEssays in Idleness
Author: 吉田兼好Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231112550
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his "Essays, " written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all suffused with an unspoken acceptance of Buddhist beliefs.
The Miscellany of a Japanese Priest
Author: William N. PorterPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331528190
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Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Excerpt from The Miscellany of a Japanese Priest: Being a Translation of Tsure-Zure Gusa Many are the books written on Japan and the Japanese. They are mostly written by those travel lers who went out to Japan on a longer or shorter visit, and who, as the Japanese say, travelled like dumb men.' But few, few are the books which try to introduce to the West the beautiful products of the Japanese mind. Of the former we have already had too many of the latter we can never have enough. For what is the good of writing books merely to excite the curiosity in the reader by telling him of many queer things about a country It is high time that Japan was studied from a more serious than a tourist's point of view. To visit a country in search of the beautiful in nature is scarcely worth the expense involved, while to study it in search of the beautiful in man not only repays the trouble an hundredfold, but indirectly conduces to the peace of the world at large. And to this end there is nothing like a study of its literature, always an index and mirror of a nation's mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Miscellany of a Japanese Priest
Author: Kenkō YoshidaPublisher:
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Category : Japanese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Tsure-zure Gusa
Author: The Miscellany of a Japanese Priest, Being a Translation of Tsure-zure Gusa
Author: Kenkō YoshidaPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Harvest of Leisure
Author: Kenko YoshidaFormless in Form
Author: Linda H. ChancePublisher:
ISBN: 0804730016
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects. In Japanese literary history the work is classified as one of the first collections of zuihitsu, or informal essay. This first extended critical treatment of Tsurezuregusa goes back to its author and his time to rebuild the discursive world of the early fourteenth century and to examine such matters as whether genre labels assist reading or obscure significant comparisons and contexts. The book presents compelling arguments against considering Tsurezuregusa as an example of zuihitsu; instead, the text is treated as a deliberate, controlled effort by Kenko to force the reader to confront the impermanent and contingent nature of existence through experiencing the text. The book develops this view by studying the collaborative strategies operating between writers and readers in medieval Japan, the intellectual intent and devices of Kenko's text, and the many kinds of writing on which it draws. We learn how a text with a commitment to shaping responses to the world is simultaneously dedicated to exploding the reader's identification with the presumably unchanging facts of existence. The aesthetics of impermanence (mujo), central to medieval Japanese thinking, emerges not only as what writing is about but also as a means to demonstrate and to encourage the enactment of aesthetics by readers. Thus, a work that seems formless, to have little structure, is shown to be so in the interest of form, that is, of conveying a clear meaning to its audience. Or, to express it with a more Buddhist inflection amenable to Kenko, although the form that we can perceive is contingent on conditions and is hence formless, the fact of form continues to matter absolutely. Both literature and the nature of existence are readable because of the interplay of provisional and absolute truths, of the writer's and the reader's approaches to texts.