Author | Eugen Herrigel |
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Language | German |
Genre | Philosophy |
Published | Curt Weller, Konstanz Pantheon Books, NY Routledge and Kegan Paul, London |
Publication date | 1948 (Germany), 1953 (United States, United Kingdom), 1955 (Japan) |
Publication place | Germany |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 92 pp (1948 German edition) 109 pp (1953 US edition) 107 pp (1953 UK edition) |
OCLC | 40962313 |
Zen in the Art of Archery (Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschießens) is a book by German philosophy professor Eugen Herrigel, published in 1948, about his experiences studying Kyūdō, a form of Japanese archery, when he lived in Japan in the 1920s. It is credited with introducing Zen to Western audiences in the late 1940s and 1950s.