Hakuin Ekaku
Idle Talk on a Night Boat (Yasenkanna)
Written work · Essential works
Idle Talk on a Night Boat (Yasenkanna)
夜船閑話 (Yasenkanna)
An account of the young Hakuin's “Zen sickness” and its cure through inner contemplation (naikan), which brings the vital energy down to the lower belly, and the butter-egg method. It blends Chinese medicine, Daoism and Zen; it was his most widely read book among lay people and still circulates as a health manual.
Authorship note
Written in Japanese (kana mixed with characters) for lay readers. The preface is dated spring 1757 and signed by a supposed disciple; the narrative core recreates the visit to the hermit Hakuyū in 1710.
Editions and translations
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English
Hakuin Ekaku
Hakuin's Yasenkanna
The Conscious LibraryHakuin's Yasenkanna
The Eastern Buddhist (n. s.) 34/1, 2002
Translation: Norman Waddell
Traducción en revista.
Hakuin Ekaku
Yasen Kanna: A Chat on a Boat in the Evening
The Conscious LibraryYasen Kanna: A Chat on a Boat in the Evening
Monumenta Nipponica 13, 1956
Translation: R. D. M. Shaw y Wilhelm Schiffer
Traducción en revista.
日本語
Hakuin Ekaku
Yasen kanwa; Yabukōji (Zen no koten)
The Conscious LibraryHakuin Ekaku
Yasen kanna 夜船閑話
The Conscious LibraryYasen kanna 夜船閑話
Zen Bunka Kenkyūsho (Hakuin Zenji hōgo zenshū), 2000
ISBN 9784881821381
Ed. anotada de Yoshizawa Katsuhiro.
Other works by Hakuin Ekaku
- The Embossed Tea Kettle (Orategama) · 1749
- 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
- Record of the Precious Mirror Cave
- 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 Yasenkanna». The Eastern Buddhist, nueva serie, 34, n.º 1 (2002).
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