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Offers two works on life's fleeting pleasures by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. This book includes ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court.
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Essays in Idleness, Kenko Yoshida
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- Essays in Idleness
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kenko Yoshida
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0141192100
- ISBN13
- 9780141192109
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, True Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Religious Topics, Philosophical Topics, Religion, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Japan, Buddhism, Japanese Literature, Taoism
- Original title
- Tsurezuregusa
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Offers two works on life's fleeting pleasures by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. This book includes ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court.