Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei

Author/Contributor(s):	Gensei ; Watson, Burton
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	05/09/1983
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Gensei, a seventeenth century Nichiren sect monk, composed poetry in Chinese and was a leading figure among the literary elite of his era. "Grass Hill" offers translations of over sixty of these poems, as well as a dozen prose pieces and an extensive introduction to Gensei's work.