“Jotting down at random”

Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees, trans. Meredith McKinney.

This small volume of excerpts from Essays in Idleness (c. 1329–1331), the work of a Japanese Buddhist monk, is no. 11 in the Penguin Little Black Classics series (2015). It’s our household’s great discovery (so far) as we make our way through the series.

[Ellipsis in the original.]