Record of Miraculous Events in Japan - The Nihon Ryoiki

Informationen zum Autor Burton Watson has taught at Columbia, Stanford, and Kyoto universities and is one of the world's best-known translators of Chinese and Japanese works. His translations include The Complete Works of Zhuangzi , The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales , The Analects of Confucius , The Tales of the Heike , and The Lotus Sutra ; the writings of Mozi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi; The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry ; and Records of the Grand Historian . Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University and the author and editor of numerous books on Japanese literature. Klappentext Classic setsuwa tales describing Buddhism¿s emergence in eighth-century Japan. Zusammenfassung Classic setsuwa tales describing Buddhism’s emergence in eighth-century Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Burton (TRN)/ Shirane Watson
• Assisted by: Shirane Haruo (Introduction), Burton Watson (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2013
• EAN: 9780231164214
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16421-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, FICTION / General, Fiction, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Buddhism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese, CE period up to c 1500, Language: reference & general, Asian History, c 500 to c 1000 CE