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Stephen Addiss

Stephen Addiss, PhD, is Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities: Art at the University of Richmond, Virginia, as well as a world-renowned calligrapher. He is a leading authority on Japanese art and the author of more than thirty-five books.

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77 Dances
Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks, and Scholars 1568-1868

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The first book on Japanese calligraphy from the significant Momoyama and Edo periods (1568–1868), 77 Dances examines the art of writing at a time when it was undergoing a remarkable flowering, as illustrated by over one hundred sumptuous illustrations. Everything...

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Four Huts
Asian Writings on the Simple Life
Translated by Burton Watson
Illustrated by Stephen Addiss

Arts

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The short works collected in Four Huts give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia—that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling. The texts were written between the ninth and the seventeenth centuries and convey each author's underlying sense of...

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Haiku Humor
Wit and Folly in Japanese Poems and Prints

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Humor has long been a lively element in traditional Japanese culture. Through parody, satire, personification, and wit, Japanese humor has a playful, subtle, and incongruous nature. Here, the benign and gentle quality of Japanese humor is presented through 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa,...

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Haiku Landscapes
In Sun, Wind, Rain, and Snow

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Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of the mountains, forests, rivers, and rugged seascapes of Japan—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems appear both in skillful English translation,...

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A Haiku Menagerie
Living Creatures in Poems and Prints

Poetry

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A furry, feathery, and scaly menagerie of creatures large and small, this beautiful gift book presents haiku from the most famous Japanese haiku poets, accompanied by woodblock prints and paintings by some of Japan's best known artists. The poems—divided into categories such as "fliers,...

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Haiku People
Big and Small in Poems and Prints

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Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of people of various shapes and sizes, young and old—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems appear both in skillful English translation, as well...

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River of Stars
Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko
Illustrated by Stephen Addiss

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Yosano Akiko (1878-942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than seventy-five books, including twenty volumes of original poetry and the definitive translation into modern Japanese of the Tale of the Genji. Although probably best...

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Tao Te Ching
Illustrated by Stephen Addiss
Introduction by Burton Watson

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In what may be the most faithful translation of the Tao Te Ching, the translators have captured the terse, enigmatic beauty of the original masterpiece without embellishing it with personal interpretation or bogging it down with explanatory notes. By stepping out of the way and letting...

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The Zen Art Box
The art of enlightenment: 40 exquisite reproductions, each with art commentary and Zen teaching

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A work of Zen art is a teaching in visual form, intended to be contemplated not only for its beauty, but for the secrets it contains about being fully human, fully alive. As teaching, Zen art can be profound, perplexing, serious, humorous—sometimes all within the same piece;...

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