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Yoshida Kenkō
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Japanese writer
OverviewAI-generated
Yoshida Kenkō was a Japanese writer, poet, and essayist who lived from 1283 to 1350. Born in Kyoto, he was a male citizen of Japan who practiced Buddhism and wrote in Japanese. His name is also recorded in native scripts as 吉田兼好 and 卜部兼好, with kana readings including よしだ けんこう and うらべ の かねよし.
His most notable work is *Tsurezuregusa*. Other associated titles include *Kenkō Hōshi kashū* and entries in *Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces*. Records indicate he had 36 works listed in one database and 5 in another. He died in Japan.
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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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,297x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,796x
- Geant4 developments and applications
· 2006 · cited 5,894x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries
· 2018 · cited 4,330x
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Quotes
- “{{lang|ja|つれ〲なるまゝに、日ぐらし硯に向ひて、心に移り行くよしなしごとを、そこはかとなく書きつくれば、怪しうこそ物狂ほしけれ。}}”
- “One should write not unskilfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when pressed upon him.”
- “If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us! The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. Consider living creatures — none lives so long a man. The May fly waits not for the evening, the summer cicada knows neither spring nor autumn. What a wonderfully unhurried feeling it is to live even even a single year in perfect serenity.”
- “The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.”
- “It is excellent for a man to be simple in his tastes, to avoid extravagance, to own no possessions, to entertain no craving for worldly success.”
- “A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
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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.