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Grass Hill - (Translations from the Oriental Classics) by Gensei (Hardcover)

Grass Hill - (Translations from the Oriental Classics) by  Gensei (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include <i>The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, </i> and <i>The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, </i> all published by Columbia.

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