Essays in Idleness
Essays in Idleness
Section titled “Essays in Idleness”
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Kenko, Chomei
- Full Title: Essays in Idleness
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Section titled “Highlights”- Writing this, I realize that all this has already been spoken of long ago in The Tale of Genji and The Pillow Book – but that is no reason not to say it again. After all, things thought but left unsaid only fester inside you. So I let my brush run on like this for my own foolish solace; these pages deserve to be torn up and discarded, after all, and are not something others will ever see.