Seasons of Sacred Celebration

The Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies published these rare paintings, with romaji renderings and English translations of both poetry and essays, to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the death of the Zen Abbess Mugai Nyodai (1223-98), the first female Rinzai Zen master in Japan. The book includes a greeting from the 27th-generation head of Daishoji Imperial Convent, Abbess Kasanoin Jikun, and a foreword by Institute Director Barbara Ruch. The poems have been translated by Herschel Miller and Sadako Ohk