New Book Announcement:
KAKURENBO Or the Whereabouts
of Zen Priest Ryokan
by Eido Frances
Carney
with translations by Nobuyuki Yuasa
Temple Ground Press,
2013.
ISBN-13: 978-0985565114
Written
for a general audience, this is an exploration of the life of the Zen
priest-poet Ryokan interwoven with memoir of the author as she observes
Ryokan’s life during her own training as a Zen priest in Japan and encounters
Ryokan in contemporary life as a model for learning and renewal. Ryokan loved
the game Hide-and-go-Seek, Kakurenbo in Japanese, and this provides a metaphor
as the author seeks to uncover the mysterious pathway of the hermit priest. The
book includes a generous amount of Ryokan’s poetry by the award- winning
translator Nobuyuki Yuasa.
Available at Amazon or your local
bookstore
