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Hōjōki (An Account of My Hut)方丈記
"The flow of the river never ceases, and yet the water is not the water that was" — written eight hundred years ago by a man who lived through a great fire, a whirlwind, the moving of the capital, a famine and a great earthquake in Kyoto, one after another, and who then withdrew into a demountable hut one jō square. The record of the disasters becomes, just as it stands, a record of impermanence, and at the end he asks himself whether even the heart that loves that quiet is not a fault. Worth setting beside the Daodejing and the Dhammapada.
The first text carried in this library written in mixed Chinese-and-Japanese script (Chinese characters together with kana) — the collation was counted over the whole of the character count.
Complete in one volume
- Questioning Myself結び · 2 passages · 423 Chinese characters
- The Savor of a Quiet Life閑居の氣味 · 6 passages · 2,110 Chinese characters
- Leaving Home, and the Hut One Jō Square出家と方丈の庵 · 4 passages · 1,593 Chinese characters
- The Hardness of Living in the World世のありにくさ · 1 passages · 515 Chinese characters
- The Great Earthquake of Genryaku元曆の大地震 · 2 passages · 810 Chinese characters
- The Famine of Yōwa養和の飢饉 · 3 passages · 1,382 Chinese characters
- Moving the Capital to Fukuhara福原遷都 · 2 passages · 1,025 Chinese characters
- The Whirlwind of Jishō治承の辻風 · 1 passages · 431 Chinese characters
- The Great Fire of Angen安元の大火 · 1 passages · 573 Chinese characters
- Preface — The Flowing River序 · 1 passages · 439 Chinese characters