Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei (Translations from the Asian Classics S.)

by Burton Watson (Author), Burton Watson (Author), Gensei Gensei (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1983

  $102.83

  Gensei, a seventeenth century Nichiren sect monk, composed poetry in Chinese and was a leading figure among the literary elite of his era. Grass Hill offers translations of over sixty of these poems, as well as a dozen prose pieces and an extensive introduction to Gensei's work.