The Great Bodhisattva Pass, Book 24: Flux, Volume 2

A martial pilgrim wins respect by knowing how to lose. A painter finds a book that seems to bring the whole West within reach, yet discovers that broader knowledge only sharpens his desire for deeper understanding.

Painting and popular song, domestic bonds, theater, comic imposture, literary judgments, and remembered grief carry the story forward. Lady Ogin’s encounter with a broken instrument leads to an unexpected discovery and an account whose meaning is not immediately clear.

Flux, Volume 2 completes the two supplied volumes of Book 24 of Nakazato Kaizan’s epic. It begins with the full continuation of section 19 and preserves printed sections 20–28 without abridgment, including the complete thirteen-line song and all extended dialogue and quotations.