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Hojoki: Ten Foot Square House

Kamo no Chōmei

Paperback | Pages: 127 pages

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Title	:	Hojoki: Ten Foot Square House
Author	:	Kamo no Chōmei
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 127 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1997 by Hokuseido Press, the (first published 1212)
Categories	:	Cultural. Japan. Poetry. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Classics

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The single great work of literary witness in medieval Japan, Hojoki is a short social chronicle prompted by a series of calamities that overtook old Kyoto in the late 12th century. By building a rude home in the forest and eliminating desire, poet and Buddhist priest Chomei believed he would be spared the anguish that had befallen the townspeople. Yet at the end we find the author consumed with self-doubt, questioning his own sanity and the integrity of his purpose. His voice reaches out from the distant past and speaks directly to our hearts, surprisingly modern and intensely human.

Author Biography: Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins are writers, teachers, and translators living in Kyoto.

Stone Bridge Press is a leading English-language publisher of Japanese literature in translation. Our ROCK SPRING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LITERATURE features absorbing and important translations of classical and contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry. We believe that literature is a window into culture and society, and an expression of what is most peculiarly, and universally, human.

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Original Title:	方丈記
ISBN:	4590008610 (ISBN13: 9784590008615)

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This is an amazing little gem, and its applicability for today is amazing! If you can find this, please spare the twenty or so minutes it would take for reading this, it truly is something to help put you back into reality.

Gentle prose. The beginning reminds me of The Book of Ecclesiastes, warning the reader that all is vanity, one doesn't know what nature will do to your prized possessions.

Like many books belonging to the Japanese culture, Hojoki puts forward the irreplaceable tranquility of the quiet, isolated life. I must say I took great pleasure in reading this book and I couldn't help but notice that the last part is very reminiscent to Thoreau's Walden, even though they have been written almost six centuries apart. It is really nice to see that unlike many other things, the impact of nature is timeless.

- Calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu (15581637), Underpainting attributed to Tawaraya Sōtatsu (died ca. 1640), Poem by Kamo no Chomei (ca. 1154 1216)If we follow the ways of the world, things are hard for us; if we refuse to follow them, we appear to have gone mad.As I understand it, Hojoki is read by every Japanese student in school and had a great influence on much that was subsequently written in Japanese. It is one of the key texts of the Japanese culture. Written by Kamo no Chomei in 1212

Below the crimson skies shivers the last leaf,Sings the blue bird, songs of a lonely treeI wonder where, swallowed by the spring rain,Floats the leaf, to claim a spotted graveThe sounds from Hojoki deeply permeate,Heart of a one-room hut, poetry and music rhymeNestled within an early bud, what do I see?Glimpses of Lotus Sutra, one mans pilgrimage.Five deciding elements of nature persuading the humble origin of the supreme fruition of man conceptualising the ephemeral life, the sensibility of man

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