Japanese Death Poems－Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death 新版 [単行本]

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• 内容紹介

  Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life.
  
  Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Compiler Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined－from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries.
  
  Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in translated English and romanized Japanese.
  
  辞世の句
  平安貴族の憧れの死から、武士道、風刺へと変化する日本人の死生観を、辞世の句を通して考察。

• 著者について

  Yoel Hoffmann (ヨエル ホフマン)
  Celebrated author, editor, and translator, Professor Yoel Hoffmann (1937－2023) is known as one of the leading Western scholars of Zen Buddhism and of Japanese poetry. Hoffman wrote several books on Buddhism and comparative philosophy, including The Sound of the One Hand, Radical Zen: the Sayings of Joshu, and The Idea of Self-East and West. He was the recipient the inaugural Koret Jewish Book Award, the Bialik Prize, and the Prime Minister's Prize.

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