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Yoshida Kenkō
Sign in to saveAlso known as Yoshida Kenko, Yoshida Kenkou, Urabe no Kaneyoshi
Japanese writer
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1282?
- Died
- 1350
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
- 徒然草／
- 徒然草
- つれづれ草
- Kenkō Hōshi kashū
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Key facts
- Born
- c. 1283, Japan
- Died
- 1350 (aged 66–67), Japan
- Occupation
- Buddhist monk , writer, artist
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Period
- Muromachi period , Kamakura period
- Notable works
- Essays in Idleness
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Kyoto
- Place of death
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Notable work
- Tsurezuregusa
- Image
- Yoshida Kenko.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1283-01-01
- date of death
- 1350-01-01
- Commons category
- Yoshida Kenko
- name in kana
- うらべ の かねよし
- name in native language
- 卜部兼好
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Encyclopedic overview
Urabe Kenkō (卜部 兼好; 1283–1350), also known as Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好; Japanese pronunciation: [jo.ɕi.da (|) keꜜŋ.koː]), or simply Kenkō (兼好; [keꜜŋ.koː]), was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Kenko wrote during the early Muromachi and late Kamakura periods.
Life and work
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yoshida Kenkō” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.