Four Huts
Asian Writings on the Simple Life
$31.83
- Paperback
103 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2002
Summary
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. Four Huts presents original translations by Burton Watson—one of the most respected translators of Chinese and Japanese literature. The qualities that emerge from these writings are an awareness of impermanence, love of nature, fondness for poetry and music, and an appreciation of the quiet life. Four Huts features eleven brush paintings by artist Stephen Addiss.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781570629464 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1570629463 |
| Author: | Burton Watson, Stephen Addiss |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 103 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2002 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 142mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“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
Burton Watson
Burton Watson (1925–2017) taught Chinese and Japanese literature at Columbia, Stanford, and Kyoto universities. He was one of the most well-known and respected translators of Chinese and Japanese literature.
Watson received the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in both 1982 and 1995, and the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation in 2015. He died in 2017 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
Stephen Addiss, PhD, is Professor of Art at the University of Richmond in Virginia. A scholar-artist, he has exhibited his ink paintings and calligraphy in Asia, Europe, and the United States. He is the author or coauthor of more than thirty books and catalogues about East Asian arts, including The Sound of One Hand: The Paintings and Calligraphy of Zen Master Hakuin.
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