Hojoki. Kamo no Chomei

      

      HOJOKI

      Visions of a Torn World

      Text by Kamo-no-Chomei

      translated by

      Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

      with illustrations by

      Michael Hofmann

      Stone Bridge Press • Berkeley, California

      Published by

      Stone Bridge Press, P.O. Box 8208, Berkeley, CA 94707

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      The quotation on page 11 is from “Andrei Rublëv” by Andrei Tarkovsky, translated by Kitty Hunter Blair (London: Faber and Faber, 1991).

      Cover design by David Bullen incorporating a painting by Michael Hofmann

      Text design by Peter Goodman

      Text copyright © 1996 by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

      Illustrations copyright © 1996 by Michael Hofmann

      All rights reserved

      No part of this book may be reproduced without permission from the publisher.

      isbn 978-1-880656-22-8

      For the people of South Hyogo

      He hears snatches of conversation; the wind singing under the thatched eaves; the rustle of twigs . . . the full-throated, happy cry of swallows in the evening air. His eyes are filled with helpless anguish, like someone who has suddenly lost the power of speech at the very moment when he is about to say something terribly important, something crucial to everyone who might hear it.

      FROM THE SCREENPLAY

      “ANDREI RUBLËV” BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY,

      TRANSLATED BY KITTY HUNTER BLAIR