Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
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Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Hoffmann, Yoel [Compiler]
- ISBN
- 4805314435
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
ISBN-10
4805314435
ISBN-13
9784805314432
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239902309
Product Key Features
Book Title
Japanese Death Poems : Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Asian / Japanese, Buddhism / Zen (See Also Philosophy / Zen)
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
7 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
There is something so otherworldly and beautiful about Japanese poetry, but especially Japanese poetry about death...poetry and prose regarding death, dreams, and memories have an extra weight and heft to them, whilst still being able to maintain an ethereal, dreamy, nostalgic, cozy warm delivery in their thematic idea exploration. -- Traveling Book Nerds , "There is something so otherworldly and beautiful about Japanese poetry, but especially Japanese poetry about death...poetry and prose regarding death, dreams, and memories have an extra weight and heft to them, whilst still being able to maintain an ethereal, dreamy, nostalgic, cozy warm delivery in their thematic idea exploration." Traveling Book Nerds, "It's really just a phenomenal window into an aspect of Japanese culture that I had no exposure to." -- Tim Ferris, The Tim Ferris Show, A wonderful introduction to the Japanese tradition of jisei , this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review , "There is something so otherworldly and beautiful about Japanese poetry, but especially Japanese poetry about death...poetry and prose regarding death, dreams, and memories have an extra weight and heft to them, whilst still being able to maintain an ethereal, dreamy, nostalgic, cozy warm delivery in their thematic idea exploration." -- Traveling Book Nerds, Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss discuss Japanese Death Poems on episode #670 of The Tim Ferriss Show - Listen to it here (conversation starts at 1:18:00), "A wonderful introduction to the Japanese tradition of jisei , this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei , this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Dewey Edition
23
Compiled by
Hoffmann, Yoel
Dewey Decimal
895.6100803548
Synopsis
Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei , or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the great majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan, and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the poems of longing of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese., "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei , this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." -- Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei , or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Compiler Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in translated English and romanized Japanese.
LC Classification Number
PL757.5
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