Unsung heroes of old Japan / Michifumi Isoda ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
2017
DS871.75 .I8413 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Unsung heroes of old Japan / Michifumi Isoda ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
Uniform Title
Mushi no Nihonjin. English
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9784916055767 (hardcover)
4916055764 (hardcover)
4916055764 (hardcover)
Published
Tokyo-to Chiyoda-ku : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2017.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the original Japanese into English.
Description
207 pages ; 22 cm.
Call Number
DS871.75 .I8413 2017
Summary
"True stories of three little-known Japanese of the Edo period who lived lives of sublime selflessness and purity, blurring the boundary between self and others. Merchant Kokudaya Jūzaburō comes up with a brilliant scheme to rescue his dying town from poverty. He and others go deep into debt, risking all to raise money for the cash-strapped daimyo and receive annual interest in return. Prodigious scholar and former Zen monk Nakane Tōri refuses a government post and elects to live in abject poverty, weaving sandals. Though perhaps the age's greatest poet, he throws his works into the fire and ends his days teaching in a country village. Ōtagaki Rengetsu, a noted beauty in Kyoto, loses two husbands and five children. She becomes a Buddhist nun and devotes her life to poetry and pottery. With her savings she feeds the hungry and builds a bridge across Kamo River"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 206).
Added Author
Carpenter, Juliet Winters, translator.
Series
Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
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Table of Contents
Preface to the English edition
1. Kokudaya Jūzaburō (1719-1777)
2. Nakane Tōri (1694-1765)
3. Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875).
1. Kokudaya Jūzaburō (1719-1777)
2. Nakane Tōri (1694-1765)
3. Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875).