Publication
The essay was originally published in 1933 in Japanese. The English translation was published in 1977 by Leete's Island Books.
The translation contains a foreword by architect and educator Charles Moore and an afterword by one of the translators, Thomas J. Harper. Harper was Senior Lecturer in Japanese Literature at the Australian National University in Canberra. The other translator, Seidensticker, was Professor of Japanese Literature at Columbia University.
Much shorter than the author's novels, this book is a small meditative work of 73 pages, of which 59 are the essay itself.
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