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
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ISBN: 9780231112550
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Book Title: Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko (Tr
Number of Pages: 235 Pages
Publication Name: Essays in Idleness : the Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 1998
Subject: Buddhism / History, Asian / General, Comparative Religion, Philosophy
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.9 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Donald Keene
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics Ser.
Item Width: 0.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
