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	Hosshinshu: Kamo no Chomei's Hermit Stories - Articles - House of Hermits - Hermitary
		The compilation was made years after Chomei's Hojoki, his famous reflective essay about the tumult of his time, from autocratic government and fickle masses to the series of natural disasters that overwhelmed the capital and threw daily life into chaos.
		Chomei understood that he was a tonseisha, not a hijiri, or worse an inja or sukimono, that is, a secular aesthete.
		She valued his example, and as a widow had already renounced the world, she continued, glad to witness the example of virtue, even to the self-effacement of his insisting that no one be summoned, even at the point of death.
	www.hermitary.com /articles/hosshinshu.html (1864 words)

	Hojoki: Kamo no Chomei's Account of His Hut - Articles - House of Hermits - Hermitary
		Kamo no Chomei (1155-1216) was no emperor, but he witnessed a chaotic and violent era in Japan.
		Chomei then describes a succession of calamities in his day: the 1177 fire that consumed Kyoto, the windstorm of 1180 that leveled much of the city, the famine that struck for the next two years, devastating town and country, leaving anguished and sickly residents wandering aimlessly, corpses littering the streets.
		Chomei's bed on the east wall was a straw mat and fern fronds.
	www.hermitary.com /articles/hojoki.html (695 words)

	200 - 1300
		Kamo no Chomei (1153-1216 CE) was born in Kyoto, Japan, and began his career as a poet at the imperial court.
		There, Chomei (or Komei) wrote the essay An Account of My Hut (Hojoki), in which he describes the advantages of a rural life of isolation and tranquility compared to the turbulence, hazards and upheavals of city life.
		Chomei’s elegantly written and structured text offers a powerful argument in the humanistic tradition that sees virtue in simplicity.
	www.humanistictexts.org /1100_-_1300.htm (755 words)

	Hojoki
		Kamo no Chomei's An Account of My Hut is a long essay that, while coming out of very different circumstances, reminds one of Thoreau's Walden, but is interesting as both history and philosophy.
		Kamo no Chomei describes the Great Fire, the Whirlwind, the moving of the capital, the famine, and the earthquake, all while civil war between the Taira and Minamoto clans is going on.
		In this chaos, he is denied the appointment as priest at the Kamo Shrine that he might have expected, and, with all these other experiences, this leads him to renounce the world in favor of a retreat into a Buddhism that is philosophically close to Thoreau's transcendentalism.
	www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/Hojoki.html (5980 words)

	japan20
		Although no single work stands out sufficiently from the mass to deserve special mention, lyrical discursive writing, in the various forms of the diary, the travelogue, the utamonogatari, and the zuihitsu, did not disappear in the Muromachi period.
		The kyogen comedies that are performed between No plays seem to have come generally to their present sophisticated level when No was reaching its heights, although the texts were not written down until later.
		No having become the private preserve of the military aristocracy, the Tokugawa merchant and artisan classes set about making their own drama Two dramatic forms are original to the Tokugawa period: the puppet theater and the Kabuki theater.
	www.geocities.co.jp /SilkRoad/2832/japan20.html (5393 words)

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		Hojoki: Kamo no Chomei's Account of His Hut - Articles - House of...
		Japanese chronicler Kamo no Chomei compiled hermit tales.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Kamo_no_Chomei.html (194 words)

	Kamo no Chōmei Criticism and Essays (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chōmei was born in 1155, the second son of Kamo no Nagatsugu, a Shinto priest in charge of the important lower Kamo no Mioya Shrine on the Kamo River.
		Chōmei was also encouraged by Kamo no Shigeyasu, the head Shinto priest in charge of a shrine farther up the river, and by the celebrated poet-priest Shun'e.
		Thomas Blenman Hare calls Chomei “one of the shapers of the intellectual world of medieval Japan.” Hare also notes some of the many different ways Chōmei is viewed by critics: as an “enlightened and well-rounded sort of Buddhist epicurean,” as a “tireless empiricist,” and as a “troubled and distracted” individual.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/kamo-no-chomei (576 words)

	Hôjôki Sobre mi ermita - Kamo no Chômei - Traducción de Fernando Barbosa
		No pasó un solo día sin que hubiera veinte o treinta temblores de una intensidad que de ordinario habría causado consternación.
		No debería haber ningún problema si tuviera que reconstruirla.
		Kamo no Chômei (1155-1216), su autor, fue poeta, crítico, compilador y prosista del medioevo japonés.
	www.revistanumero.com /38hojo.htm (6181 words)

	{Inter} Cultural Japan » Blog Archive » Kamo no Chomei and Shimogamo
		She is revered for her naijo no ko, the fact that she helped her son with his great endeavor of establishing the dynasty (naijo no ko, helping husband or son along, was the highest women could aspire to in the old Japan and you still hear that phrase surprisingly often).
		Kamo no Chomei (1155-1216) came from a family of priests attached to the Shimogamo Shrine and was himself called to priestly functions when still a young boy.
		Chomei finds peace in the beauty of nature, far from the vain strivings of human beings.
	www.interculturaljapan.com /wordpress/2007/03/kamo-no-chomei-and-shimogamo (678 words)

	A Hut of One's Own (Cover Story) Jon Spayde
		Chomei's era saw the courtly culture that produced Japan's first great literature and art destroyed in brutal wars between military families vying for power.
		The imperial capital of Kyoto, Chomei's home, was burned countless times, and evil luck brought a whirlwind and an earthquake to the city too -- disasters he describes vividly.
		Chomei is writing within a long East Asian tradition of male recluses: men of affairs who retire to the countryside when they have fallen out of political favor or have been driven from home by war.
	www.utne.com /issues/2005_127/cover_story/11506-2.html (792 words)

	Unreal City - Poetry of the Twenty-First Century
		Gradually aware took the form of mono no aware, which, translated, means 'the sadness of things', but more coloquially it refers to the artist's (or viewer's) sensitivity to beauty and its perishability, or rather to its implied pathos -- the force of an unwept tear or an unstated recognition or passion.
		Kamo no Chomei described it thus: 'The limitless vista created in imagination far surpasses anything one can see more clearly.' 'Being, they are not.
		Not being, they are.' Speaking of the art of acting in No, he said, 'Whether the character one portrays be of high or low birth, man or woman, priest, peasant, rustic, beggar, or outcast, one should think of them as crowned with a wreath of flowers.
	www.davidpascal.com /unrealcity/reviews/anime.html (1719 words)

	Japan Society, New York - Education
		What follows is some brief background information on Kamo no Chomei, the author of “An Account of My Hermitage.” In your own historical diary, it might be a good idea to include a paragraph or two with background information on the historical personage who is “writing” your diary, even if that person is imaginary.
		After failing to be appointed as head priest to a prestigious Shinto shrine, Chomei retreated from the world, took Buddhist vows, and finally established his own hermitage in a remote and mountainous part of Japan in 1208.
		It was vain for the farmers to till the fields in the spring or set out plants in the summer; there was no reaping in the fall, no bustle of storage in the winter.
	www.japansociety.org /education/subject_resource.cfm?id_subject=1235626341&id_resource=1763319061 (1279 words)

	Kamakura period
		The Taira were as much a part of the court and its elegant ways as the Fujiwara had been; their allegiance was not to the provinces from which they came but to Kyoto and its courtly culture.
		We know from our reading of the Hojoki by Kamo no Chomei that the country was plagued at this time by famine, epidemics, natural disasters, and political disorder.
		The popular religious belief in mappo, the period of the Decline of the Law, supported the pessimistic conviction that an era of strife and unrest was to begin in 1052 and last 10,000 years before the coming of the law of the next Buddha, Maitreya.
	f99.middlebury.edu /JA216A/kamakura.html (817 words)

	Kamo no Chomei Biography and Summary
		Kamo no Chmei (or Nagaakira) claims an eminent place in the history of Japanese letters despite his relatively small oeuvre.
		He was a respected poet at a fairly early age; wrote a valuable treatise on poetry, poetics, and poetic lore; and compiled an imp...
		Kamo no Chōmei (鴨長明, 1155 – 1216) was a Japanese author, poet(waka), and essayist.
	www.bookrags.com /Kamo_no_Chomei (200 words)

	Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World
		Retreating from "this unkind world," the poet and Buddhist priest Kamo-no-Chomei left the capital for the forested mountains, where he eventually constructed his famous "ten-foot-square" hut.
		From this solitary vantage point Chomei produced Hojoki, an extraordinary literary work that describes all he has seen of human misery and his new life of simple chores, walks, and acts of kindness.
		"[Chomei's incomparable Hojoki [is] as relevant today as it was eight hundred years ago.
	www.stonebridge.com /hojoki/hojoki.html (281 words)

	Famous Cultural Figures
		Shônagon was the daughter of Kiyowara Motosuke and a maid of honor to the consort of the Emperor Ichijô.
		A colorful figure, she produced the famous 'Pillow Book', or Makura no Sôshi, which provides the reader with an insider's view of the going's-on of the Imperial Court as well as Shônagon's opinions on such subjects as love, good looks, commoners and gossip.
		Sen no Rikyû was a man of merchant background from Sakai and was known for much of his career as Sôeki.
	www.samurai-archives.com /culture.html (2650 words)

	Libro - IBS - Ricordi di un eremo - Kamo no Chomei (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kamo no Chomei - Ricordi di un eremo
		Cortigiano nella prima parte della sua esistenza, eremita a partire dagli anni della maturità, Kamo no Chomei (1155-1216) è un protagonista del periodo di grandi rivolgimenti culturali che, con il passaggio dall'epoca Heian (794-1185) a quella di Kamakura (1185-1333), segna anche l'avvento del medioevo nipponico.
		Poeta e musicista di talento, prosatore di grande eleganza, Chomei riesce a cogliere nella sua opera alcuni aspetti fondamentali del nuovo clima culturale, sia quando discetta di poesia, sia quando descrive il drammatico momento di decadenza della società in cui vive come in "Ricordi di un eremo".
	www.internetbookshop.it /ser/serdsp.asp?shop=1&isbn=8831768492 (459 words)

	Summary of the Literature of Japan (Kojiki, Nihon shoki, Fudoki)
		In the late 10th century; the ascendancy of the Fujiwara regents, whose power over emperors depended on the reception of their daughters as imperial consorts, resulted in the formation of literary coteries of women in the courts of empresses, and it was these women who produced the great prose classics of the 11th century.
		Such stories as Rashomon (1915; Rashomon), and Yabu no naka (1922; In a Grove) are brilliantly told, combining psychological subtlety and a sardonic tone with a fanciful delight in the grotesque.
		Critics have posited a turning point in the 1950's, after which Japanese fiction ca no longer be easily characterized in terms of the early postwar consciousness.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/japan/pro-literature.htm (2300 words)

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		They she was so afraid of dropping the basket into the river that she scarcely dared to step.
		When at last she reached home she was tired out, but she pulled the screens tightly closed so that no one could look in, and opened her treasure.
		From this solitary vantage point Chomei produced Hojoki, an extraordinary literary work that describes all he has seen of human misery and his new life of simple chores, walks, and acts of kindness.
	users.browser.net /markham/library.htm (1792 words)

	Summary of the Literature of Japan (Kojiki, Nihon shoki, Fudoki)
		In the late 10th century; the ascendancy of the Fujiwara regents, whose power over emperors depended on the reception of their daughters as imperial consorts, resulted in the formation of literary coteries of women in the courts of empresses, and it was these women who produced the great prose classics of the 11th century.
		Such stories as Rashomon (1915; Rashomon), and Yabu no naka (1922; In a Grove) are brilliantly told, combining psychological subtlety and a sardonic tone with a fanciful delight in the grotesque.
		Critics have posited a turning point in the 1950's, after which Japanese fiction ca no longer be easily characterized in terms of the early postwar consciousness.
	asianinfo.org /asianinfo/japan/pro-literature.htm (2300 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hojoki : Visions of a Torn World: Books: Kamo no Chomei,Michael Hofmann (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The single great work of literary witness in medieval Japan, Hojoki is a short social chronicle prompted by a series of calamities that overtook old Kyoto in the late 12th century.
		By building a rude home in the forest and eliminating desire, poet and Buddhist priest Chomei believed he would be spared the anguish that had befallen the townspeople.
		The string of successively less grand homes ends in his famous 'ten square foot hut.' He was not strictly a hermit, but seemed mostly content with a small and simple kind of life.
	www.amazon.ca /Hojoki-Visions-Kamo-no-Chomei/dp/1880656221 (610 words)

	Kamo No Chomei
		HÅjÅki (æ—¹ä¸ è¨) - Chomei tells of his getting fed up with society and going to live in the...; Kamo no Chomei - MarsilioRicordi di un eremo, Kamo no Chomei.
		- Kamo no Chomei (1155-1216) was no emperor, but he witnessed a chaotic and violent era in Japan.
		Libri Marsilio - Kamo no Chomei, Ricordi di un eremo.
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		This is the first monograph-length study in English of Kamo no Chomei, one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan.
		Pandey situates Chomei’s works within a debate that had become central in both China and Japan: litterateurs considered the implications of writing, seen as a fundamentally worldly pursuit, for the goals of detachment and renunciation as central to the experience of Buddhist enlightenment.
		Focusing on one key term, suki, which finds a central place in Chomei’s poetic treatise, the Mumyosho, and his collection of religious setsuwa, the Hosshinshu, Pandey argues that Chomei’s reworking of this concept and his exploration of its semantic possibilities are central to his project of reconciling the contesting claims of writing and renunciation.
	www.asianstudiesbooks.com /0939512866.htm (249 words)

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		Cortigiano nella prima parte della sua esistenza, eremita a partire dagli anni della maturità, Kamo no Chomei (1155-1216) è un protagonista del periodo di grandi rivolgimenti culturali che, con il passaggio dall'epoca Heian (794-1185) a quella di Kam...
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	Japan to 1615 by Sanderson Beck
		After his petition to succeed his father as the warden of the Kamo shrine in Kyoto was rejected, Chomei retired in the mountains.
		The year Honen died Kamo Chomei (1153-1216) wrote "An Account of My Hut" in which he contrasted the miseries caused by the fire of 1177, the typhoon of 1181, the famine the next year, and the earthquake of 1185 with joys of the simple life he chose in a ten-foot square hut.
		The inner strength of the actor must not become noticeable to the audience or it is no longer "no action." Actors by clearing their minds may even conceal their own intent from themselves.
	www.san.beck.org /3-11-Japanto1615.html (17262 words)

	FT.com / Arts & weekend / Music & Theatre - BBC Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It would be wrong to dub this a populist manifesto, as the BBC still spends millions of pounds on orchestras whose output reaches only a fraction of licence-fee-payers.
		It is a conundrum of London’s musical life that an orchestra that would have attracted thousands to the Proms for such music can barely fill the Barbican stalls.
		The figleaf here was Dove’s Hojoki, based on an 800-year-old narrative by the Japanese poet Kamo no Chomei.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/62fa278c-52e2-11db-99c5-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=013344a8-300f-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html (298 words)

	CA13 Kenneth Rexroth and Japan
		Rexroth’s chorus is closer to the Japanese progenitor than Yeats’s ‘cloth bearers’ (see especially BL12), and as in the nô does not take a part in the action but engages in dialogue with, and sometimes speaks for, the principle characters.
		Rexroth’s plays are not as well known as those of Yeats, but no serious account of the ways the nô has been adapted to the Western stage may responsibly overlook them.
		The fullest study is Sakurai’s ‘The Noh Plays of Kenneth Rexroth’ (BL204), which emphasises their derivation as much from Yeats as from the Japanese form itself.
	themargins.net /bib/C/ca/ca13.html (438 words)

	Samurai Sworsd of Japan - Notable Samurai Warriors in History -3
		Chomei was the second son of Kamo-no-Nagatsugu, an important figure at the Kamo Shrine.
		Chomei proved himself a talented poet, being published in the Imperial poetry anthology Senzai-wakashu and a member of a number of notable poetry circles.
		He became a monk in 1204 and moved into the countryside.
	japanesesamuraiswords.com /samurai-swords-japan-3.htm (294 words)

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