Shasekishū

The Shasekishū (沙石集), also read as Sasekishū[1][2] ,[3] translated into English as Sand and Pebbles, is a five-volume collection of Buddhist parables written by the Japanese monk Mujū in 1283 during the Kamakura period.

It is best known in English for an excerpt included in 101 Zen Stories.

Notes
  1. Watanabe (1966:57)
  2. Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten (1986:896-897)
  3. Kubota (2007:166)
gollark: I mean that it gives you a better reason to come up with more accurate information and not just wildly say whatever, because you have some (small) financial reason.
gollark: I don't see an issue with betting. It gives you incentives to make better predictions.
gollark: Having some specific mental thing preventing you from wearing a mask is probably very rare compared to, say, just having... severe asthma?
gollark: I think you missed the context.
gollark: I don't know, governments seem to vaguely manage for other stuff mostly.

References
  • Kubota, Jun (2007). Iwanami Nihon Koten Bungaku Jiten (in Japanese). Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 978-4-00-080310-6.
  • Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten: Kan'yakuban [A Comprehensive Dictionary of Classical Japanese Literature: Concise Edition]. Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. 1986. ISBN 4-00-080067-1.
  • Watanabe, Tsunaya (1966). Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 85: Shasekishū (in Japanese). Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-060085-0.
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