To help me in my seemingly endless grief I am revisiting the Zen literature of Japanese and Chinese writers and poets — Ryokan, Bashō, Buson, Issa.

To help me in my seemingly endless grief I am revisiting the Zen literature of Japanese and Chinese writers and poets — Ryokan, Bashō, Buson, Issa.
You’ve heard of the Hermit Kingdom, land of a dictator, well, I live in the hermit hovel, an old bungalow with a cat and countless mice.