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  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141398259
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $9.99

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees




Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'

Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses.

  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141398259
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $9.99

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About the authors

Yoshida Kenko

Kenko was a monk and a noted calligrapher, remembered today for his wise and witty aphorisms.