Akarui Bukkyo: Amerika yori Nihon Bukkyoto ni [Brilliant Buddhism: From American to Japanese Buddhists]

  • Fresno, CA, but printed in Japan: Maha Maya Society, 1954
By [Japanese Americana]. Kyogoku, Itsuzo
Fresno, CA, but printed in Japan: Maha Maya Society, 1954. Very good.. [2],[8],265,[1]pp., plus photographic frontispiece portrait. Original tan boards stamped in silver, original printed dust jacket. Minor wear. A scarce biography of a Japanese-American priest, the title of which roughly translates to "Brilliant Buddhism: From American to Japanese Buddhists." Kyogoku was a Shin priest working within the Japanese American community in California. He spent the war years in the Topaz internment camp.  OCLC records a little over a dozen copies.

Details

Title

Akarui Bukkyo: Amerika yori Nihon Bukkyoto ni [Brilliant Buddhism: From American to Japanese Buddhists]

Author

[Japanese Americana]. Kyogoku, Itsuzo

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Maha Maya Society: Fresno, CA, but printed in Japan

Date

1954


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