@article{812920,
      note = {Revised and abridged translation of: "Ima o ikiru chie"  originally published by Iwanami Shoten in 2002.},
      author = {Nakano, Kōji, and Carpenter, Juliet Winters, and Nakano,  Kōji,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/812920},
      title = {Words to live by : Japanese classics for our time /},
      abstract = {"Nakano Kōji opens the door to the treasury of Japanese  classics by introducing six writers who are his personal  favorites. The writers under his lens span seven centuries,  ranging from the twelfth century to the nineteenth. Three  are poets; three wrote timeless prose. The hermit-monk  Ryōkan, a poet who loved nothing more than bouncing balls  with neighborhood children or just sitting sprawled in his  hut listening to the sound of rain, teaches the value of  living with a spirit of play. Kenkō offers trenchant  comments on the aesthetics of life, grounded in an  appreciation of the immediacy of death. Kamo no Chōmei, a  journalist par excellence, found happiness late in life by  flouting convention and "rejoicing in the absence of  grief." Dōgen, the founder of Sōtō Zen in Japan, takes  us on a mind-bending trip to the Dharma--ultimate  truth--that involves revolutionary ways of conceiving of  time, life, and death. Saigyō, the beloved itinerant  monk-poet, continually explores his own wayward heart and  its vast, incorrigible love of beauty. Buson the haiku poet  uses his painter's eye to capture cosmic vistas as well as  moments of poignancy in poems of seventeen syllables"--Dust  jacket.},
      recid = {812920},
      pages = {235 pages :},
}