Old Taoist : The life, art, and poetry of Kodóojin (1865-1944) / Stephen Addiss ; translations of and commentary on Chinese poems, by Jonathan Chaves ; with an essay by J. Thomas Rimer Temple Robert Scaglione

Robert Scaglione

I believe that as the interest in and understanding of Japanese culture continues to spread

Within its repetition lies the key to the self and the Buddha who resides within

amüsante und lehrreiche Geschichten voller Rätsel entdecken

" (Times Literary Supplement)

Old Taoist : The life, art, and poetry of Kodóojin (1865-1944) / Stephen Addiss ; translations of and commentary on Chinese poems, by Jonathan Chaves ; with an essay by J. Thomas Rimer Temple Robert Scaglioneby Addiss, Stephen; Chaves, Jonathan; Rimer, J. Thomas In the literary and artistic milieu of early modern Japan the Chinese and Japanese arts flourished side by side. Kodojin, the "Old Taoist" (1865 1944), was the last of these great poet painters in Japan. Under the support of various patrons, he composed a number of Taoist influenced Chinese and Japanese poems and did lively and delightful ink paintings, continuing the tradition of the poet sage