Grass Hill - Poems and Prose By the Japanese Monk Gensei

Informationen zum Autor Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra! The Vimalakirti Sutra! Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan! Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home! and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century! all published by Columbia. Klappentext Gensei! a seventeenth century Nichiren sect monk! composed poetry in Chinese and was a leading figure among the literary elite of his era. Grass Hill offers translations of over sixty of these poems! as well as a dozen prose pieces and an extensive introduction to Gensei's work. Zusammenfassung Gensei! a seventeenth century Nichiren sect monk! composed poetry in Chinese and was a leading figure among the literary elite of his era. "Grass Hill" offers translations of over sixty of these poems! as well as a dozen prose pieces and an extensive introduction to Gensei's work.

Product details

• Authors: Gensei, Nichisei
• Assisted by: Burton Watson (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.1983
• EAN: 9780231056069
• ISBN: 978-0-231-05606-9
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: Translations from the Oriental
• Subject: Fiction > Mixed anthologies