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In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃, In'ei Raisan) is a 1933 essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was translated into English, in 1977, by the academic students of Japanese literature Thomas J. Harper and Edward Seidensticker. A new translation by Gregory Starr was published in 2017.
Tsurezuregusa (徒然草, Essays in Idleness, also known as The Harvest of Leisure) is a collection of essays written by the Japanese monk Kenkō (兼好) between 1330 and 1332. The work is widely considered a gem of medieval Japanese literature and one of the three representative works of the zuihitsu genre, along with The Pillow Book and the ...
Dōgen mentions the kōan in the opening of the essay while arguing how serious a position tenzo is, stating that Dongshan had this insight during his time serving as tenzo. [7] While hemp may seem unrelated to the kitchen, the Zen scholars Shohaku Okumura and Taigen Dan Leighton suggest 'hemp' (麻) may be a mistranslation and that 'sesame ...
Urabe Kenkō (卜部 兼好, 1283–1350), also known as Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好), or simply Kenkō (兼好), was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), [1] one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Kenko wrote during the early Muromachi and late Kamakura periods.
Isonokami Sasamegoto (Japanese: 石上私淑言, lit. ' Personal Views on Poems '), is an extended essay on Tanka poetry written in 1763 by the eighteenth century Japanese scholar Motoori Norinaga. Norinaga was one of the leading scholars in the Kokugaku (国学, lit. ' National learning ') literary movement. [1] [2]
Genjōkōan (現成公按 [1]), translated by Tanahashi as Actualizing the Fundamental Point, [2] [3] is an influential essay written by Dōgen, the founder of Zen Buddhism's Sōtō school in Japan. It is considered one of the most popular essays in Shōbōgenzō. [4]
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (動物化するポストモダン：オタクから見た日本社会, Dōbutsuka-suru Postmodern: Otaku kara mita Nihon Shakai) is a nonfiction essay that relates otaku culture to postmodernism. It was published by Hiroki Azuma in 2001, [1] and translated into English by the University of Minnesota Press in 2009.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Japanese essays" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.