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Created page with "*''Born: 1283'' *''Died: 1350'' *''Japanese'': 吉田兼好 ''(Yoshida Kenkou, Yoshida Kaneyoshi)'' Yoshida Kenkô was the author of the ''Tsurezuregusa'', a now-..."
*''Born: [[1283]]''
*''Died: [[1350]]''
*''Japanese'': 吉田兼好 ''(Yoshida Kenkou, Yoshida Kaneyoshi)''
Yoshida Kenkô was the author of the ''[[Tsurezuregusa]]'', a now-famous miscellany.
Kenkô took the tonsure around [[1313]] and became a ''tonseisha'' (someone who took the tonsure, but didn't truly enter the monastic community or lifestyle), something which was becoming increasingly common, or popular, around that time. From roughly [[1319]] to [[1333]], he wrote the essays which would come to comprise the ''Tsurezuregusa''.
Though the ''Tsurezuregusa'' speaks of a yearning for the past, and a disdain for new up-and-comers (''nariagari''), Kenkô did not in fact remove himself from city or court life, and to the contrary actively attended social events held by the likes of [[Ashikaga Takauji]], [[Ashikaga Tadayoshi]], [[Ko no Moronao|Kô no Moronao]], and [[Sasaki Doyo|Sasaki Dôyô]].
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==References==
*H. Paul Varley, "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the World of Kitayama: Social Change and Shogunal Patronage in Early Muromachi Japan", in John Hall and Toyoda Takeshi eds., ''Japan in the Muromachi Age'', University of California Press (1977), 186.
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
*''Died: [[1350]]''
*''Japanese'': 吉田兼好 ''(Yoshida Kenkou, Yoshida Kaneyoshi)''
Yoshida Kenkô was the author of the ''[[Tsurezuregusa]]'', a now-famous miscellany.
Kenkô took the tonsure around [[1313]] and became a ''tonseisha'' (someone who took the tonsure, but didn't truly enter the monastic community or lifestyle), something which was becoming increasingly common, or popular, around that time. From roughly [[1319]] to [[1333]], he wrote the essays which would come to comprise the ''Tsurezuregusa''.
Though the ''Tsurezuregusa'' speaks of a yearning for the past, and a disdain for new up-and-comers (''nariagari''), Kenkô did not in fact remove himself from city or court life, and to the contrary actively attended social events held by the likes of [[Ashikaga Takauji]], [[Ashikaga Tadayoshi]], [[Ko no Moronao|Kô no Moronao]], and [[Sasaki Doyo|Sasaki Dôyô]].
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==References==
*H. Paul Varley, "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the World of Kitayama: Social Change and Shogunal Patronage in Early Muromachi Japan", in John Hall and Toyoda Takeshi eds., ''Japan in the Muromachi Age'', University of California Press (1977), 186.
[[Category:Kamakura Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]