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Essays in Idleness
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: 吉田兼好
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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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
Essays in Idleness
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: Kenko
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-05 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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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, Ch�
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
Language: en
Pages: 52
Authors: Kenko
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-26 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...' Moonligh
Idleness
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Brian O'Connor
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-07 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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"For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labo
Hojoki
Language: en
Pages: 98
Authors: Kamo no Chomei
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07-01 - Publisher: Stone Bridge Press

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An extraordinary literary work from the 12th century, a meditation on nature and mortality.