Friday, July 11, 2025

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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).

Also from this volume
“Jotting down at random” : “Beneath a lamp” : “The boorishness and insensitive”

comments: 2

Anonymous said...

This hits the mark for me.
—Fresca

Michael Leddy said...

Bull’s-eye!