Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei
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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.
Columbia University Press, 1983.
ISBN: 9780231056069. 116 pp.
Translated by Burton Watson.
Hardcover. Near fine in a very good jacket.
Jacket spine faded.