{"product_id":"9781466895416","title":"A Zen Harvest: Japanese Folk Zen Sayings (Haiku, Dodoitsu, and Waka)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is \u003ci\u003ejakugo\u003c\/i\u003e, or capping-phrase exercises.  When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”) to study.  When the student provides a satisfactory response to the koan, he advances to the \u003ci\u003ejakugo \u003c\/i\u003eexercise–he must select a “capping phrase,” usually a passage from a poem among the thousands in a special anthology, the only book allowed in the monastery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne such anthology, written entirely in Chinese, was translated by noted Zen priest and scholar Soiku Shigematsu as \u003ci\u003eA Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters.  \u003c\/i\u003eEqually important is a Japanese collection, the \u003ci\u003eZenrin Segosh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eu, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich Mr. Shigematsu now translates from the Japanese, including nearly eight hundred poems in sparkling English versions that retain the Zen implications of the verse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156579729648,"sku":"9781466895416","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466895416_p0.jpg?v=1769892465","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466895416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}