epub |eng | | Author:Quan Manh Ha

* * * Anyone who visited the village and asked about Tuc would hear the story of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy. She had been lovesick and gone crazy and left the ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:Yukio Mishima

4. When the lieutenant at last turned away, it was not from weariness. For one thing, he was anxious not to undermine the considerable strength he would need in carrying ...

epub |eng | 2007-02-13 | Author:Sam Hamill [Hamill, Sam]

THE PRIEST MANSEI (CA. 730) IF pressed to compare this brief life, I might declare: It’s like the boat that crossed this morning’s harbor, leaving no mark on the world. ...

epub |eng | 2006-05-25 | Author:Pu Songling

66 MYNAH BIRD Wang Fenbin once told this story about a man in his native town who kept a mynah bird. The man taught it to speak, and they became ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Ikku Jippensha [Jippensha, Ikku]

'His Kyōto establishment is in Juzuya-machi, Rokujō,' said the landlord of the Fujiya. 'That's so," said Yaji. 'My father and mother are very anxious about me because I'm always climbing ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Haeree Park

4.3.2Regional variation in use of decorative strokes In the Chu form (曾侯乙鐘) the ‘belly’ and 廿 part are attached to each other while the symmetrical slanting stokes between them which ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sam Hamill

Without beginning, utterly without end, the mind is born to struggles and distresses, and dies—and that is emptiness. Hajime naku owari mo naki ni waga kokoro umare shisuru mo ku ...

epub |eng | 2008-06-14 | Author:Shirane, Haruo;

Allusive Genji Ukiyo-e: Suzuki Harunobu and Isoda Koryūsai The Genji pictures of Suzuki Harunobu (d. 1770), another prominent artist of the mid-Edo period,40 in the ukiyo-e style fall into roughly ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:David Hinton

epub |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Beata Grant

Gatha on the Bamboo Walking Staff Roughly broken off with a snap, Stripped of branches and leaves. Hard as bone, bumpy and uneven, Holes and knots here and there. Although ...

epub |eng | | Author:Yang, Rae

15 Semi-transparent Nights If I could fall asleep in the middle of a street far away from home in 1966, how could I suffer from insomnia the next year when ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Mu Yang

I found myself submerged between a mysterious sadness and joy when I looked at myself, sitting at my desk, starring fixedly at the stack of papers in front of me, ...

epub |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:T'aejun Yi

* Su Dongpo (1037–1101) was one of the greatest poets and calligraphers of the Song dynasty. Copying At the mention of Wandang I followed the duke Sŏnbu, who spends his ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:David Hinton

Yin-Dark Again Dark-enigma winter bleeds through dark-enigma’s yin-dark frontiers. Yesterday, skies cleared late. Today, they’re black, lit thistledown blown ten thousand dusk-flared miles across. On a lone city-wall, feathered war-flags ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Burton Watson

Their rites and ceremonies are entirely according to rule, Their laughter and talk are entirely appropriate.10 Rites are strictest in their ordering of birth and death. Birth is the beginning ...