Four Huts
Asian Writings on the Simple Life
$22.59
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
11 December 2018
Summary
This beloved Eastern classic on living simply and in harmony with nature is back as part of the new Shambhala Pocket Library series.
The short works collected in Four Huts give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia—that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling. The texts were written between the ninth and the seventeenth centuries and convey each author’s underlying sense of the world and what is to be valued in it.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781611806410 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1611806410 |
| Author: | Burton Watson |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 11 December 2018 |
| Weight: | 98g |
| Dimensions: | 171mm x 108mm |
| Series: | Shambhala Pocket Library |
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“This beautifully rendered, expertly designed, small pocket volume is a compact little world in itself, just waiting to be opened.”– The Japan Times
“This beautifully rendered, expertly designed, small pocket volume is a compact little world in itself, just waiting to be opened.“— The Japan Times
About The Author
Burton Watson
Burton Watson (1925-2017) taught Chinese and Japanese literature at Columbia, Stanford, and Kyoto universities. He translated many books from Chinese and Japanese, and was one of the most well-known and respected translators in his field. He received the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in both 1982 and 1995. In 2015, he received the prestigious PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation. He died in 2017 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
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