寒山詩
The Poems of Hanshan (Cold Mountain)
Hanshan 寒山 · Tang dynasty
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About three hundred poems said to have been written on rocks and trees by a recluse of the Tiantai mountains, whose dates and very existence are uncertain. They mix Buddhist sermon, mountain solitude and plain jokes in colloquial verse. Long on the edge of the Chinese canon, they became beloved in Japan and, through translations of the 1950s, in America.