Saigyo
Saigyo , 1118-90, Japanese poet-priest of the late Heian, early medieval period. Born into a warrior clan, Saigyo studied with the most renowned poets of his day, producing relatively conventional poetry until taking the tonsure in 1140, when the priesthood seems to have afforded him the physical and spiritual freedom reflected in his mature work. Saigyo's extensive travels inspired verse on the pull of the secular world, old age and death, and the beauty of nature. The Sankashu [collection of a mountain hut], his major work, contains poems on love, as well as seasonal and miscellaneous topics.
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Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home.
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...old capital city of Heian, present day Kyoto. Saigyo (1118-1190) spent twenty-three years in...surely must have provided a model from among Saigyo's many Chinese sources--Saigyo is an advocate of self-transcendence, albeit...
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Profile: Career of Japanese poet Kazuko Shiraishi
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 7/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 Profile: Career of Japanese poet Kazuko Shiraishi Host: BRIAN NAYLOR Time: 1:00-2:00 PM BRIAN NAYLOR, host: From NPR News, this is WEEKEND EDITION...
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Award honours Japanese poet
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 12/10/2003; ; 481 words
; Daisaku Ikeda, founder of Soka University and honorary president of Soka Gakkai, was presented the fourth International Literary Award for Understanding and Friendship, according to a press conference held yesterday by the Chinese Literature Foundation. The ceremony was held in the main tower's
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Komachi on the stoop: writing and the threshold of life. (Japanese poet Ono No Komachi)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; At the beginning of Sotoba Komachi ("Komachi on the Stupa a Japanese No play written by Kan'ami in the fourteenth century, a priest from Mount Koya is traveling with his attendant toward Kyoto. As they walk, the two priests discuss the teachings with one another; the first words they speak are
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Mirror for the Moon.
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...old capital city of Heian, present day Kyoto. Saigyo (1118-1190) spent twenty-three years in...surely must have provided a model from among Saigyo's many Chinese sources--Saigyo is an advocate of self-transcendence, albeit...
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Finding Poetry On Your Plate.(Society and the Arts; POINT OF VIEW)(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 2/11/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...things. "Though I compose poetry," another priest named Saigyo observed a century earlier, "I do not think of it as composed...small shop where, to this day, coffee is brewed in a spirit Saigyo would have appreciated: while they may make coffee here, they...
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The cross and the cherry blossom: The gospel and Japanese culture at the crossroads
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...cherry blossoms. The twelfth-century poet and Buddhist priest Saigyo (1118-1190) composed a famous poem about the cherry blossom...month of February 3 Incidentally, in accordance with his wish, Saigyo died on the very day of a full moon during the blossoming of...
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The green room
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Institutes of Health; she resides in Chevy Chase, Maryland. SAIGYO (1118-1190) was born to a minor branch of the Fujiwara clan...establishing Japan's long tradition of Buddhist nature poetry. SAIGYO'S translator, SAM HAMILL, is the author of The Essential...
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Dialogues at One Inch above the Ground: Reclamations of Belief in an Interreligious Age.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Buddhist-Christian Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...The title of the book is taken from the writings of the famous medieval poet Saigyo, who said that he tried to live at one inch above the ground. Heisig follows Saigyo's advice by focusing many of his articles on themes such as health and ecology...
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Now the season turns.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 4/1/2006; ; 655 words
; ...was not new. And yet Yakamochi at his best attained a clarity and transparent simplicity that would remain unrivaled until Saigyo, four centuries later. By not mentioning his lover or her death specifically, the poet lets the oncoming darkness be just...
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Saigyo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Saigyo , 1118-90, Japanese poet-priest of...medieval period. Born into a warrior clan, Saigyo studied with the most renowned poets of...spiritual freedom reflected in his mature work. Saigyo's extensive travels inspired verse on...
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Sotatsu Tawaraya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...brilliant colors and a bold graphic sense, in 1630 Sotatsu was commissioned to illustrate the Saigyo Monogatari Emaki [Biography of the monk Saigyo] as well as to create a set of screens for the emperor. Among his most important works are the...
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Tawaraya Sotatsu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...significant that one of his most famous works is a copy of the 13th-century Yamato-e scroll dealing with the life of the priest Saigyo and that before this he had been engaged in repairing another celebrated example of narrative scroll painting. From these works...
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