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product_id: 9784158
title: "Essays in Idleness"
brand: "donald keene"
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reviews_count: 13
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# Essays in Idleness

**Brand:** donald keene
**Price:** £35.76
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Essays in Idleness by donald keene
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Essays in Idleness

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## Customer Reviews

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    Kenko's Time-capsule: A Cultural Survey
  

*by H***D on Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 1999*

Anyone interested in or studying Japanese history/literature/culture should read this book.  It contains a series of short essays (zuihitsu) and reads much like Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book.  These essays range from  Kenko's moral opinions about various aspects of life to his aesthetic  tastes and thoughts about beauty.  These essays are Kenko's opinion, yet  they can be taken as the opinions of Japan's society at the time of the  writing. Therefore there is a great deal of interesting cultural  information and meaning behind Kenko's words.  So if you are interested in  Japanese Buddhism or religion, this book's a must.If you are interested  in Japanese aesthetics-  aware: the idea that beauty is transient/fleeting,  wabi-sabi: by becoming aged and through use, an object's history and  experience bestow upon it greater value than an object that is new, the  idea that uncertainty/non-uniformity/ and incompletion can inspire  imagination- by all means read this.

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    Odd
  

*by C***W on Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2020*

Too idle to write an essay.

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    Great!
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2021*

I love this book.

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