Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life
Language: English
Published by Shambhala Publications Inc, 2002
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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.
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- Title
- Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life
- Author
- Stephen Addiss
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications Inc
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1570629463
- ISBN 13
- 9781570629464
- Illustrator
- Addiss, Stephen
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About the Author
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.
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 also 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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