In the canon
Essays in Idleness and Hojoki
Kenkō and Chōmei
- Form
- Form Zuihitsu
- Year
- Year 1330
- Originally in
- Originally in Japanese
- Pages
- Pages 230
The flow of the river is ceaseless, and the water is never the same water. Kamo no Chomei opens there and then makes you watch the capital burn: fire, then whirlwind, then a famine that left so many dead in the streets that a priest walked among them writing a single syllable on each forehead so none would go uncounted.
without any particular object jot down the odds and ends that pass through my mind, with a curious feeling that I am not sane.
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