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 • missing pub info (view editions) user-added

nonfiction autobiography essays
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New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being idleThese two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view...

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