Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan

by Ryokan, Burton Watson (Translator)

Overview

Watson includes the representative works of this Tokugawa poet's waka and kanshi works, along with an introduction and the original Japanese poems in romanized form.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231044158
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/05/1992
Series:	Translations from the Asian Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.37(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia.