Kenkō Yoshida

Essays in Idleness

The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko

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A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

'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......

Essays in Idleness

The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō

The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his Essays, written sometime betwee...

Essays in Idleness

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The Miscellany of a Japanese Priest

Being a Translation of Tsure-zure Gusa

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Solitary Delight of the Four Seasons

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