Book record
White Tea Bowl
Mitsu Suzuki
Translated from Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi, Norman Fischer, Kate McCandless
White Tea Bowl, translated from the Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi, Norman Fischer, Kate McCandless, brings Mitsu Suzuki's Japanese-language work into English through Shambhala Publications, Incorporated. Published in 2014, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Suzuki’s title invites a quiet, Zen-inflected attention to vessel, hand, emptiness, and the humble object made luminous by use. I would not read this as a puzzle with a hidden answer. Read it for pressure, for texture, for the place where a line suddenly becomes stranger than its apparent subject. The book matters because it keeps the translated poem alive as encounter, not summary, and because Japan enters the shelf through music rather than report.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9781930485358