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Zen Fool Ryokan (Paperback)

by Misao Kodama (Author) "56. Once we start to bounce a ball, We will only be led on to, Counting: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,..." (more)
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A collection of more than 150 poems by the Zen monk Ryokan. His works remain widely popular in Japan today, with their celebrations of everyday joys and sadness. This edition presents Ryokan's poetry in English alongside the original Chinese and Japanese versions, notes and a biographical essay.


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Misao Kodama taught English at a middle school in Kyoto, where she currently resides. Hikosaku Yanagishima was a professor at Kyoto Seika Junior College and Baika Women's College of Osaka
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56. Once we start to bounce a ball, We will only be led on to, Counting: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Only to start again-from the beginning! Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, multilingual translation, Jun 24 2000
By M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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The title of this book is a bit misleading - this is not poetry of the "holy fool" type as one sees the holy fool in the Christian and Islamic traditions. Rather, this is poetry of a Zen monk who retained the playfulness of a child and who is reticent regarding his enlightenment. In fact, you may read far into the book before encountering poems that are unambiguously "Zen".

What truly sets this edition apart, however, is the afterward which includes memories of individuals who knew Ryokan. Even if the translation was mediocre, I would recommend the book for this alone. Luckily, the translation is satisfactory though not inspired.

The poems themselves were written in Japanese and Chinese - in form, they are varied - as there is so much wonderful Zen haiku translated into English, this volume is a delightful counterpoint of other poetic forms.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly heart warming!, Dec 17 1999
By George Itoh (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews
Of all the translated books of Ryokan, this was the most true and heartfully interpreted collections of poems I have come across. As a bilingual second generation Japanese, I know the difficulty of translating the essence of a culture into another, and still relay the message as it was intended. That is the art form of the translator, and very rarely do I feel the same sensation from reading the same material in a different language. Truly wonderful!
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