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In idle hours a monk faces his inkstone and sets down whatever passes through his mind.
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Around 1330, the monk Yoshida Kenkō set down, in idle hours, two hundred and forty-three short meditations on nature, beauty, friendship, impermanence, and the art of living, ranging from the turning of the seasons to the follies of men. His Tsurezuregusa is a founding text of mono no aware, the tender awareness of the transience of things, and has been read and loved for seven centuries. It is given here complete in the 1914 English translation of William N. Porter.
A newly typeset Northlume Library edition, behind an original mixed media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.
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- Yoshida Kenkō (c. 1283–c. 1352)
- Translated by William N. Porter (1914)
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 158 pages