[DeepL Translation - needs review] Essays by Kamo no Chōmei,, a Japanese poet and essayist from the late Heian to Kamakura periods. It is considered one of the representative essays of medieval Japanese literature, and together with "Tsurezuregusa" by Yoshida Kenko and "Makurazoshi" by Sei Shonagon, both written about 100 years later, it is also called one of Japan's three most famous essays. It is the first outstanding work of literature written in a mixed writing style of Japanese and Chin...
An interesting read and a great starting point for classical Japanese.
Kamo no Chomei's essay is a meditation on impermanence, using Kyoto (and a series of disasters, both natural and political, that affect Kyoto) as a means to instantiate these ideas. Throughout is an overarching theme of our relationship to our dwellings; what is necessary, what is excess, and how are we reflected in our dwellings.
Grammar is much different from modern Japanese, vocabulary is relatively similar. More diffi