Essays In Idleness: And Hojoki

Offers two works on life's fleeting pleasures by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. This book includes ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court.

• | By (Author): None Kenko
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Dec 05, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0141192100
• | ISBN-13: 9780141192109