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Essays in Idleness and Hōjōki by Yoshida Kenkō, Kamo no Chōmei

Essays in Idleness and Hōjōki

Penguin Classics

Yoshida Kenkō, Kamo no Chōmei with Meredith McKinney (Translator)

254 pages first pub 1332 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction essays philosophy
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These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hōjōki, Chōmei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny...

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