Kamo no Chōmei (鴨長明, 1155–1216) was a Japanese author, poet (waka), and essayist. He was born Kamo no Nagaakira. Events Frederick I Barbarossa crowned Holy Roman Emperor. ... Events Prince Louis of France, the future King Louis VIII, invades England in the First Barons War Henry III becomes King of England. ... This is an alphabetical list of authors who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Waka (和歌) or Yamato uta is a genre of Japanese poetry. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ...
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Hōjōki (方丈記) - Chomei tells of his getting fed up with society and going to live in the wilderness, in order to lose all of his attachments to this fleeting world. Unfortunately he gets rather attached to his little hut on the mountain. essay
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The compilation was made years after Chomei's Hojoki, his famous reflective essay about the tumult of his time, from autocratic government and fickle masses to the series of natural disasters that overwhelmed the capital and threw daily life into chaos.
Chomei understood that he was a tonseisha, not a hijiri, or worse an inja or sukimono, that is, a secular aesthete.
She valued his example, and as a widow had already renounced the world, she continued, glad to witness the example of virtue, even to the self-effacement of his insisting that no one be summoned, even at the point of death.
KamonoChomei (1155-1216) was no emperor, but he witnessed a chaotic and violent era in Japan.
Chomei then describes a succession of calamities in his day: the 1177 fire that consumed Kyoto, the windstorm of 1180 that leveled much of the city, the famine that struck for the next two years, devastating town and country, leaving anguished and sickly residents wandering aimlessly, corpses littering the streets.
Chomei's bed on the east wall was a straw mat and fern fronds.
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