The Penguin book of Zen poetry /
edited and translated [from the Japanese and Chinese] by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto ; with an introduction by Lucien Stryk.
Description
- Language(s)
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English ; Chinese ; Japanese
- Published
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London : Allen Lane, 1977.
- Summary
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The collection spans 1,500 years - from the early T'ang dynasty to the present day - and offers Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, and many haiku, the quintessential Zen art. Japan's greatest contemporary Zen poet, Shinkichi Takahashi, is also well represented. The volume contains many poems never before rendered into English as well as numerious examples of Zen painting.
- Note
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Also issued online.
- Physical Description
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160 pages :
illustrations, portraits ;
21 cm
- ISBN
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9780713910414
0713910410
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