Resultaten voor "Meredith McKinney"

Essays in Idleness

Kenko, Chomei

• E-book | Engels
• These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôj... Lees meer

Gazing at the Moon

Meredith McKinney

• Paperback | Engels
• A fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of Saigyō, whose aesthetics of nature, love, and sorrow came to epitomize the Japanese poetic tra... Lees meer

Essays in Idleness and Hojoki

Kenko, Chomei

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• Two of the most important Buddhist tracts from Japan A Penguin Classic Both of these works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from med... Lees meer

Three Japanese Buddhist Monks

Various

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Great Ideas
• One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape o... Lees meer

Kusamakura

Natsume Soseki

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• Literally meaning 'Pillow of Grass', Kusamakura is Soseki's portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. ... Lees meer

Travels with a Writing Brush

Meredith Mckinney

• Paperback | Engels
• A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years A Penguin Classic Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed o... Lees meer

Now and Zen

Eiyû Murakoshi

• E-book | Engels
• 'In Japan we have an expression, 'Float like Cloud, Flow like Water'. Its meaning is: to live free and unconstrained' In this short introduction to Ze... Lees meer

Death by Choice Hb

Masahiko Shimada

• Hardcover | Engels
• Yoshio Kita's hopelessness and lack of faith in his future as an ordinary and lonely company worker crystallizes into a decision to take his own life,... Lees meer

A Thousand Strands of Black Hair

Seiko Tanabe

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book examines and re-imagines the turbulent and intertwined lives of Akiko Yosano (1878-1942) and Tekkan Yosano (1873-1935), two poets who sparke... Lees meer

Farewell, My Orange

Iwaki Kei

• Paperback | Engels
• "Kei's intense and impressive debut is the story of two women who bond in their adopted country of Australia . . . An immigrant tale that readers won'... Lees meer

The Pillow Book

Sei Shonagon

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• A translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the "Tale of Genji", it is one of the major Japanese classics. Lees meer

Three Japanese Buddhist Monks

Saigyo, Kamo no Chomei, Yoshida Kenko

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Great Ideas
• 'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky' These simple, inspiring writings ... Lees meer

The Pillow Book

Sei Shonagon

• E-book | Engels
• A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the TALE OF GENJI, this is one of the major Japanese Class... Lees meer

Now and Zen

Eiyû Murakoshi

• Paperback | Engels
• In this short introduction to Zen Buddhism, a practising Japanese monk shares the many lessons he has learned from life inside a temple. With charm an... Lees meer

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

none Kenko

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Little Black Classics
• Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Class... Lees meer

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Kenko

• E-book | Engels | Penguin Little Black Classics
• 'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...... Lees meer

The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro

Kanji Hanawa

• Paperback | Engels | Minis | nr. 5
• A Japanese tale - not about daring ninja or battling samurai - but a hero with a very different penchant. Based on an actual historical figure, the Ak... Lees meer

Travels with a Writing Brush

• E-book | Engels
• A rich, exquisite and original anthology that illuminates Japanese travel writing over a thousand years 'Oh journey upon journey, my life is a brief m... Lees meer

Kokoro

Natsume Soseki

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early... Lees meer

White-Haired Melody

Yoshikichi Furui

• Hardcover | Engels | Michigan Monograph Japanese Studies
• Furui Yoshikichi's work has long dealt with the human dramas of growing up and growing old, but by probing further into the recesses of the mind and m... Lees meer

The Kingdom of the Wind

Hiroyuki Itsuki

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthem Cosmopolis Writings
• Journalist Takashi Hayami meets Ai Katsuragi, a member of a religious organization, Tenmu Jinshinko, which meets secretly at the tomb of the Emperor N... Lees meer

The Tale of Saigyo

Meredith McKinney

• Paperback | Engels | Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies | nr. 25
• The Tale of Saigyo is a poetic biography of the late Heian poet Saigyo (1118-90), one of the most loved and respected poets in Japanese literary histo... Lees meer