Written work
Record of the Precious Mirror Cave
宝鏡窟之記 (Hōkyōkutsu no ki)
The piece that gives its title to Waddell's translated miscellany, Hakuin's Precious Mirror Cave, which gathers short pieces in Chinese and Japanese: inscriptions, tales, letters and sermons. It illustrates the variety of genres he cultivated.
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Authorship note
A short text; Yoshizawa edits it in the Sekishu onjō volume.
Editions and translations
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English
Hakuin's Precious Mirror Cave: A Zen Miscellany
Counterpoint, 2009
Translation: Norman Waddell
ISBN 9781582434759
日本語
Hakuin Ekaku
Sekishu onjō; Sangyō itchi no ben; Hōkyōkutsu no ki; Tosen shikō
The Conscious LibrarySekishu onjō; Sangyō itchi no ben; Hōkyōkutsu no ki; Tosen shikō
Zen Bunka Kenkyūsho (Hakuin Zenji hōgo zenshū), 2001
ISBN 9784881821428
Other works by Hakuin Ekaku
- The Embossed Tea Kettle (Orategama) · 1749
- Idle Talk on a Night Boat (Yasenkanna) · 1757
- Wild Ivy (Itsumadegusa) · 1766
- Song in Praise of Zazen (Zazen wasan)
- The Sound of One Hand (Sekishu onjō) · 1753
- Introductory Talks on the Record of Sokkō (Sokkōroku kaien-fusetsu) · 1743
- Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn (Keisō dokuzui) · 1758
- Words from the Land of Kaian (Kaiankokugo) · 1750
- Poison Words on the Heart Sūtra (Dokugo shingyō)
- An Icchantika's Notes on the Poems of Hanshan · 1746
- Treasure Left to the Cold Forest (Kanrin ihō)
- Reflections Left by the Precious Mirror (Hōkan ishō)
- Spear Flower (Yabukōji) · 1753
- Snake Strawberries (Hebiichigo) · 1754
- Thistle (Oniazami) · 1751
- Goosegrass (Yaemugura) · 1759
- Sashimogusa
- Miraculous Tales of the Ten-Phrase Kannon Sūtra
- Kana Sermons on Causes and Conditions
- Kana Goosegrass (Kanamugura)
- Tales of Spurring On for Beginners
- Record of the Filial Piety of Takatsuka's Fourth Daughter
- The Tale of Heishirō of Ihara and Other Tales
- Grinding songs, lullabies, weeding songs and riddles
- Letters
- Rōhatsu Exhortations
- Secret Notes on the Blue Cliff Record · 1916
- Painting and calligraphy · 1719
- Collected works · 1934
- Hakuin on Kensho (Albert Low) · 2006
Sources
- Waddell, Norman (trad.). Hakuin's Precious Mirror Cave: A Zen Miscellany. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009. ISBN 9781582434759.
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