Japan's Showa era began in 1926 when Emperor Hirohito took the throne and ended on his death in 1989. The formative age of modern Japan, it was undoubtedly the most momentous, calamitous, successful a
These essays by a prominent Zen master are a classic introduction to Zen Buddhism, specifically written for Westerners.The former abbot of Nanzenji Monastary in Kyoto, the Reverend Zenkei Shibayama, u
When his parents and siblings fall asleep during his rendition of the prelude to "La Traviata," performed on the harmonica he finds in the street, Zeke Pippin decides that he cannot live with such mus
