Tsurezuregusa: Essays in Idleness

244 Pages·1967·12.028 MB·English

by  Yoshida Kenkō (Trans. D. Keane)

THE TSUREZUREGUSA
OF KENKO
Translated by
DONALD KEENE

ESSAYS in Idleness
PREPARED FOR THE
Columbia College Program of Translations
from the Oriental Classics
WM. THEODORE DE BARY, EDITOR
NUMBER LXXVIII OF THE
Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies
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E S S A Y S in Idleness
TSUREZUREGUSA
The of Kenkc
TRANSLATED BY DONALD KEENE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK
Portions of this work were prepared under a grant from the Car¬
negie Corporation and a contract with the U. S. Office of Edu¬
cation for the production of texts to be used in undergraduate
education. The draft translations so produced have been used in
the Columbia College Oriental Humanities program and have
subsequently been revised and expanded for publication in the
present form.
The illustrations are by Nishi\awa Su\enobu
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is dedicated to
IVAN MORRIS
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