Gathers two hundred poems by the twelfth-century Japanese poet, and offers a brief introduction to his life and the traditions of Japanese court poetry

Poems of a Mountain Home (Translations from the Oriental Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Saigyō

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Saigyo (1118-1190) is one of the most well-known and influential of the traditional Japanese poets. He not only helped give new vitality and direction to the old conventions of court poetry, but created works that, because of their depth of feeling, continue to attract readers to the present day.

Saigyo

The first English translation of works by the medieval Japanese poet reflect his life in the Buddhist monkhood, his growing despair with Fujiwara decadence, and his concern with nature

Mirror for the Moon: A Selection of Poems by Saigyo (1118-1190. Tr With an Introd by William R. Lafleur. Tr of Selections from Sankashu. Bilingual) (English and Japanese Edition)

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Softcover collection of Saigyo's poetry, published by New Directions.

Mirror for the Moon

W.W.Norton&Company

Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyo captures the power of Saigyo's poetry and this previously overlooked poet's keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan. It also offers a fascinating look into the world of Japanese Buddhism prior to the wholesale influence of Zen.

Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times and Poetry of Saigyo

Poetry

Wisdom Publications

The Tale of Saigyo is a poetic biography of the late Heian poet Saigyo (1118-90), one of the most loved and respected poets in Japanese literary history. Its anonymous author followed the venerable "poem-tale" tradition by using 128 of Saigyo's finest and best-known poems and weaving around them facts and legends about the poet. The result is a biographical "journey" through his life. Saigyo moves from the life of a brilliant and favored young poet at the Heian imperial court, through a Buddhist "awakening" that leads him to cast off his worldly life and family ties and to transform himself into a wandering monk in search of salvation, through the vicissitudes of his long hard life on the road, to a final apotheosis as Buddhist saint in his famous death.While The Tale of Saigyo is on one level the story of the making of a Buddhist saint, it is also a biography of the trials and sorrows of an idealized poetic sensibility during a tempestuous time that saw the death of the Heian period, the Genpei Wars, and the beginning of the turbulent Kamakura period. The moving portrait of the wandering poet-monk that emerges through this tale crystallized the image of Saigyo and is felt in such later literary figures as Basho, who acknowledged Saigyo as his model and master.

The Tale of Saigyo (Volume 25) (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies)

Religion & Spirituality

U of M Center For Japanese Studies

Bajo la sombra silvestre de un naranjo: Una pizca de poemas japoneses (Spanish Edition)

Bashō, Matsuo

Buson, Yosa

Shikibu, Izumi

Issa, Kobayashi

Ryokan

Buson

Trevizo, Édgar

Sodo, Yamaguchi

Literary

Medusa Editores

Mägikodu

Tallinn University Press / Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus

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