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Zen in the Art of Archery
AuthorEugen Herrigel
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
GenrePhilosophy
PublishedCurt Weller, Konstanz
Pantheon Books, NY
Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
Publication date
1948 (Germany), 1953 (United States, United Kingdom), 1955 (Japan)
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages92 pp (1948 German edition)
109 pp (1953 US edition)
107 pp (1953 UK edition)
OCLC40962313

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.

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