Hōjōki

Hōjōki

The Hōjōki (方丈記) is a piece of Japanese literature.

Inside the piece we find allusions to the second poem of Priest Manzei, where it states:

‘on mornings when I feel myself short-lived as the white wake building behind a boat, I go to the banks of the river and, gazing at the boats plying to and fro, compose verses in the style of Priest Manzei.’¹

Footnotes

1. Miller, R. A.. (1981) “The Lost Poetic Sequence of the Priest Manzei”. Monumenta Nipponica. Vol.36 No.2 pp.133-172

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