Introducing Tatsuhiko Shibusawa—Japan’s Italo Calvino—in this fantastical tale of a Japanese prince who encounters both beauty and danger on a pilgrimage to India.| Stone Bridge Press
Xuanzang, Buddhist monk and Chinese pilgrim to India who translated the sacred scriptures of Buddhism from Sanskrit into Chinese and founded in China the Buddhist Consciousness Only school. His fame rests mainly on the volume and diversity of his translations of the Buddhist sutras and on the record of his travels.| Encyclopedia Britannica
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On Journey to the West, one of the masterworks of classical Chinese writing.| Los Angeles Review of Books
Over the past month a coincidence of events has occasioned me to think about Journey to the West: reading our new translation of Tatsuhiko Shibusawa’s Takaoka’s Travels and the death of Akira Toriyama. For many in the English-speaking world Toriyama’s magnum opus,| stonebridgepress.substack.com