Yoshida Kenko
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Yoshida Kenkō (Japanese: 吉田兼好; Yoshida Kenkō; 1283?–1350?) was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness), one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature.
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Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness)
- One should write no unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.
- To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare.
- A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
- Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
- The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
- Ambition never comes to an end.
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