SOURCE: Hora, Karel Jan. “Notes on Kamo Chômei's Life and Work.” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 34a (1906): 45-8.

In the following essay, Hora offers biographical information on Chōmei.

In Vol. XX. Part II. of the Transactions (1893) there are two articles “Chōmei and Wordsworth—A literary parallel” and Description of my Hut both by Mr. J. M. Dixon, dealing with Kamo Chōmei and his Hōjōki—and these few lines are intended to add something to the information given by these articles.

Chōmei's Life

Concerning the time of Chōmei's birth nothing is known with certainty, even the Dai Nihon Jinmei Jisho is silent upon this point. But weighing carefully the references made by Chōmei in his Hōjōki, especially that alluding to the time of his removal from Kioto, it may be inferred that his birth occured within...