A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin’s 80th anniversary

“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met…”

Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman’s hair - these exquisite reflections on life’s fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses.