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Ryokan's unusual personality and outlook are evident in this volume. His poems are mainly a record of his daily activities--of chores, lonely snowbound winters, begging expeditions to town, meetings with friends, romps with the village children. From

• Title : Ryokan: Zen Monk - Poet of Japan
• Author : Ryokan
• Rating : 4.83 (251 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-4-26
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 126 Pages
• Asin : 0231044151
• Language : English

Ryokan's unusual personality and outlook are evident in this volume. His poems are mainly a record of his daily activities--of chores, lonely snowbound winters, begging expeditions to town, meetings with friends, romps with the village children. From the Back Cover Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. Eighty-three representative works are presented here. He also wrote Chinese poems (Kanshi), some doctrinal in nature and many inspired by Han-shan, a Buddhist recluse and Master of Cold Mountain. At the same time they show us how rich a spiritual and intellectual life a man could enjoy in the midst of poverty. Forty-three of these are included in the collection. . Though a Zen master, he never headed a temple but chose to live alone in simple huts and to support himself by begging. Also included are an explanation of the Buddhist practice of begging for food, and an introduction by Burton Watson. His Japanese poems (waka) were influenced by the poets of the eighth-century Man'yoshu anthology. To enrich the text, the original Japanese poems are provided in romanized form

Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia.

On the whole, I think Stevens succeeds slightly better in some ways, but though Stevens is good, Watson is good too, and there are few who could do as good a job as either.. Here is an example of one of the shorter Chinese poems:Blue sky, cold wild-geese crying;empty hills, tree leaves whirling.Sunset, road through a hazy village:going home alone, carrying an empty bowl (page 78).Here is one of the Japanese poems:Children!shall we be going nowto the hillof Iyahikoto see how the violets are blooming? (page 27).Sometimes it seems to me that much of modern literature is a literature of confusion, but that what Ryokan has to offer is a literature of clarity. I love the format and have learned so much. This book definitely goes with the 12 step program and traditions of AA. What I wanted to know is how to upload your music to amazon so that you can play your playlists or how to make a playlist from the amazon titles so you can listen to wh

Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. Although a Zen master, he never headed a temple but chose to live alone in simple huts and to support himself by begging. At the same time they show us how contented, even joyous, a man could be with a minimum of material possessions, and how rich a spiritual and intellectual life he could enjoy in the midst of poverty.. His poems are mainly a record of his daily activities - of chores and outings to gather firewood and edible plants, lonely snow-bound winters, begging expeditions to town, meetings with friends, romps with the village children