Description: Written sometime between 1330 and 1332, the "Essays in Idleness" hardly mirror the turbulent times in which they were born. Despite the struggle between the Emperor Go-Daigo and the usurping Hojo family which rocked Japan during these years, the Buddhist priest Kenko found himself "with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head." The resulting essays, none of them more than a few pages in length and some consisting of but two or three sentences, treat a variety of subjects in a congenial, anecdotal style. Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats are all suffused with an unspoken acceptance of Buddhist beliefs. He gives voice to a distinctively Japanese aesthetic principle: that beauty is bound to perishability.
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EAN: 9780231112550
UPC: 9780231112550
ISBN: 9780231112550
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Item Length: 22.1 cm
Item Weight: 0.31 kg
Book Title: Essays in Idleness: the Tsurezuregusa of Kenko
Item Height: 221mm
Item Width: 127mm
Author: Not Available
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Buddhism
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 1998
Number of Pages: 235 Pages
