• 45: Saigyō: a poet monk

  • Jun 16 2023
  • Duración: 43 m
  • Podcast
  • Resumen

  • One of the influential travel poets and priests is Saigyō,  who lived when the world was changing drastically in his lifetime in the early 12th century in Japan. I look at the most well-known poem by him, who loved cherry blossoms and the moon.


    Saigyō  西行 

    願わくば (negawakuba)

    花の下にて (hana no shita nite) 

    春死なん (haru shinan)

    その如月の (sono kisaragi no)

    望月の頃 (mochizuki no koro)


    Hokumen no bushi 北面の武士
    The imperial palace guards for the north side 


    Taira no Kiyomori 平清盛

    Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝


    Shin kokin waka shū  新古今和歌集
    New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern 


    Hyakunin Isshu  百人一首
    One hundred people, one poem


    Oku no Hosomichi 奥の細道
    The Narrow Road to the Interrior


    Sanka shū 山家集
    Collection of a Mountain Home


    Hirokawa-dera temple 弘川寺

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