Japanese religious literature, travel writing, aesthetics, poetry, and Buddhist, Shinto, and literary reflections on impermanence.
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Glossary — A shelf-specific glossary starter for the Japanese shelf.
Hōjōki — An Account of My Hut — Kamo no Chōmei's meditation on impermanence, written in 1212 at his ten-foot-square hermitage on Mount Hino. One of the three great zuihitsu of Japanese literature.
Introduction to Japanese Religious Literature — A source-critical public introduction to the Japanese religious literature shelf, centered on Hojoki, Oku no Hosomichi, impermanence, sacred travel, and the older entanglement of kami and buddhas.
Oku no Hosomichi — Matsuo Basho — Matsuo Basho's masterwork of haibun — a prose-and-poetry travel journal of his 1689 journey through northern Japan, with over fifty embedded haiku.