“Hojoki—Visions of a Torn World,” by the poet Kamo-no-Chomei.
The book was written in the year 1212. The translation in this edition (Stone Bridge Press,1996) is by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins.
“Poet, reporter, social philosopher, monk, Kamo-no-Chomei is one of the great noble and solitary figures in all of Japanese literature, his incomparable Hojoki as relevant today as it was eight hundred years ago…”--comments, from the back-cover, by Sam Hamill.
http://www.amazon.com/Hojoki-Visions-Collection-Japanese-Literature/dp/1880656221/
