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This beautifully rendered, expertly designed, small pocket volume is a compact little world in itself, just waiting to be opened. The Japan Times

" This beautifully rendered, expertly designed, small pocket volume is a compact little world in itself, just waiting to be opened." — The Japan Times

This beautifully rendered, expertly designed, small pocket volume is a compact little world in itself, just waiting to be opened. -- The Japan Times

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Burton Watson (1925-2017) taught Chinese and Japanese literature at Columbia, Stanford, and Kyoto universities. He translated many books from Chinese and Japanese, and was one of the most well-known and respected translators in his field. He received the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in both 1982 and 1995. In 2015, he received the prestigious PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation. He died in 2017 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Stephen Addiss, PhD, is Professor of Art at the University of Richmond in Virginia. A scholar-artist, he has exhibited his ink paintings and calligraphy in Asia, Europe, and the United States. He is also the author or coauthor of more than thirty books and catalogues about East Asian arts, including The Sound of One Hand- The Paintings and Calligraphy of Zen Master Hakuin.

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