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A review by willgrogan
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō by Yoshida Kenkō
3.0
A good book, but I'm still yet to find a master translator of Japanese, and the text suffers as a result of translation (I haven't read the Donald Keene version).
Kenkō writes with a calm grace most of the time. However anachronistic themes rear their heads every now and then, and occasionally the short meditations read as if stated by your old sexist grandpa blatantly at the dinner table.
Overall I think this book is worth your time, but not if you have other books you'd like to get to instead.
Kenkō writes with a calm grace most of the time. However anachronistic themes rear their heads every now and then, and occasionally the short meditations read as if stated by your old sexist grandpa blatantly at the dinner table.
Overall I think this book is worth your time, but not if you have other books you'd like to get to instead.