| One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan Contributor(s): Stevens, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0834805707 ISBN-13: 9780834805705 Publisher: Weatherhill OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his younger American contemporary, Thoreau. Ryokan's poetry is that of the mature Zen master, its deceptive simplicity revealing an art that surpasses artifice. Although Ryokan was born in eighteenth-century Japan, his extraordinary poems, capturing in a few luminous phrases both the beauty and the pathos of human life, reach far beyond time and place to touch the springs of humanity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Philosophy | Zen |
| Dewey: 895.613 |
| LCCN: 2006271453 |
| Lexile Measure: 850 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.4" W x 8.24" (0.25 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |