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An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
This is the first work of modern scholarship to treat the whole of Kyotos premodern urban history, from the 8th century to about 1600. As an imperial ...
A Hermit's Hut As Metaphor
Hojoki is an extended meditation on the impermanence of the world and the dangers of attachment. Written by the reclusive monk Kamo no Chomei at the d...
A Hermit's Hut as Metaphor (2nd Edition)
Hōjōki is an extended meditation on the impermanence of the world and the danger of attachment. Written by the reclusive monk Kamo no Chōmei at the...
A Hermit's Hut as Metaphor (Illustrated Color Edition)
Two Japanese Classics on Reclusion. Chiteiki by Yoshishige No Yasutane, and Hojoki by Kamo No Chomei
Early Japanese literature is replete with protagonists who exchange urbane comforts and lofty status for lives of solitude, well removed from the dram...