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Urabe Kenkō (卜部 兼好, 1283–1350), also known as Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好), or simply Kenkō (兼好), was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), [1] one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Kenko wrote during the early Muromachi and late Kamakura periods.
Essays in Idleness comprises a preface and 243 passages, varying in length from a single line to a few pages. [3] Kenkō, being a Buddhist monk, writes about Buddhist truths, and themes such as death and impermanence prevail in the work, although it also contains passages devoted to the beauty of nature as well as some accounts of humorous incidents.
Hōjōki (方丈記, literally "square-jō record"), variously translated as An Account of My Hut or The Ten Foot Square Hut, is an important and popular short work of the early Kamakura period (1185–1333) in Japan by Kamo no Chōmei.
Kento Yoshida (born 10 December 1992) is a Japanese right-handed sabre fencer and Olympian. [1] He competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Medal Record.
On October 20, 2022, Yoshida was drafted by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the 6th round in the 2022 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. [5]In 2023 season, Yoshida was delayed due to rehabilitation of his right elbow, but appeared in 32 games in the Western League, batting .310 with 2 home runs and 15 RBIs, and was added to the First League roster on September 30.
Kenko Matsuki (born 1959), Japanese politician Kenkō Yoshida (1283–1352), Japanese author and Buddhist monk Kenko Takebe (1664–1739), Japanese mathematician
Yoshida Shintō reversed the honji suijaku teaching of Shin-Butsu Shuugo promulgated by Kukai in the Heian Period, asserting that the Buddhist deities were manifestations of the Shintō kami, not the other way around. Yoshida Shinto held that Shintō was the primal religion of the world, which in turn gave rise to Buddhism and Confucianism ...
Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. [1] [2] Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years.