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I have waited eagerly for the day when Unsung Heroes of Old Japan would be translated into English and made available to people around the world. I wrote the book with the faint hope that people might one day become more like the men and women portrayed here. Whether humanity has any universal values, I cant say. But looking back over the sweep of human history, I am convinced that values like those shown here result in happiness for the individual and society. (From Preface to the English edition by the author) True stories of three little-known Japanese of the Edo period who lived lives of sublime selflessness and purity, blurring the boundary between self and others. Merchant Kokudaya Juzaburo comes up with a brilliant scheme to rescue his dying town from poverty. He and others go deep into debt, risking all to raise money for the cash-strapped daimyo and receive annual interest in return. Prodigious scholar and former Zen monk Nakane Tori refuses a government post and elects to live in abject poverty, weaving sandals. Though perhaps the age's greatest poet, he throws his works into the fire and ends his days teaching in a country village. Otagaki Rengetsu, a noted beauty in Kyoto, loses two husbands and five children. She becomes a Buddhist nun and devotes her life to poetry and pottery. With her savings she feeds the hungry and builds a bridge across Kamo River.

Kategorie: Nonfiction
Schlüsselwörter: Unsung Heroes of Old Japan Juliet Winters CARPENTER, Michfumi ISODA History Nonfiction 9784866580029
Daten vom 07.10.2017 19:17h
ISBN (andere Schreibweisen): 4-86658-002-X, 978-4-86658-002-9