| Luxun Road Foreign Languages Branch Library Japanese Salon——to Appreciate The Flowing River |
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Published Time：2017-04-28 |
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| On April 22, the eve of the 22nd “the World book and Copyright Day”, Luxun Road Foreign Languages Branch Library held Japanese Salon on the theme of “to Appreciate The Flowing Rater”. The Flowing Rater is the openning essay of Hōjōki（方丈记, variously translated as An Account of My Hut or The Ten Foot Square Hut）, which is an important and popular short work of the early Kamakura period (1185–1333) in Japan by Kamo no Chōmei (鴨長明). The work was written in 1212, and depicts the Buddhist concept of impermanence (mujō) through the description of various disasters such as earthquake, famine, whirlwind and conflagration that befall the people of the capital city Kyoto. The author Chōmei, who in his early career worked as court poet and was also an accomplished player of the biwa and koto, became a Buddhist monk in his fifties and moved farther and farther into the mountains, eventually living in a 10-foot square hut located at Mt. Hino. The work has been classified both as belonging to the zuihitsu genre and as Buddhist literature. Now considered as a Japanese literary classic, the work remains part of the Japanese school curriculum. A total of more then 20 readers attended the activity. |
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