Life Is About Doing Simple Things

Name: Life Is About Doing Simple Things
Author: Natsume Soseki

生活就是做简单的事

by Natsume Soseki (夏目漱石)

Status: Completed
Length: 77k Words
Updated: 5y ago
Source: Fanqie

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16Chapters

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Synopsis

Japan's "National Great Writer" Natsume Soseki, the "ghost genius" Ryunosuke Akutagawa in the literary world, the "Three Masters of the Rogue School" Dazai Osamu, Sakaguchi Ango, and Oda Sakunosuke, the "folk art master" Yanagi Soetsu, the "national treasure" Kitaoji Rushanto, the "genius girl" Uemura Shoen in the painting world, and the famous haiku poet Masaoka Shiki... In their writings, admiring flowers, watching lanterns, eating fish, and appreciating utensils, the most common things in life, they treat with care, become the most wonderful things in life. They discover a better self in this trivial daily life. The various scenery described in the book, such as cherry blossoms, sweet fish, and snow cave lanterns, are as thin as paper, but they burst out with brilliant light in their only life. Life is like a gift. Instead of being unable to resist, it is better to work hard to discover the hidden beauty in life. A glass of wine can reveal the warmth and coldness, a flower can reveal the beauty and evil, a fallen leaf can reveal the birth and death of all things, there is beauty everywhere in life, and only those who are honest to nature can discover beauty.

Reader comments

This book brings together the works of many famous Japanese artists who are good at finding beauty in daily trivial matters. As Osamu Dazai said, if you avoid ecstasy, there will naturally be no sorrow. The content in the book made me feel that beauty is everywhere in life, and we must have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering it. The authors' writing is very good and worth reading.
3 likes2y ago
Worth reading in your spare time
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