SAIGYO

säīˈgyō, 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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The Journal of Socho
Book by H. Mack Horton; Stanford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Poets, Japanese--1185-1600--Diaries, Socho--1448-1532--Diaries
...wanderings of the last few days. Saigyo Valley After the twentieth of the same...it was decided that we should all go to Saigyo Valley, site of that great priest's ancient...Nagayama mountain. 12 The great priest Saigyo came to this mountain in the company...
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Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain : a Complete English Version of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Collection of Tales of the Supernatural
Book by Ueda Akinari, Leon M. Zolbrod; University of British Columbia Press, 1974
Subjects: Fantasy Fiction, Japanese--Translations Into English, Supernatural--Fiction
...Once upon a time I began to journey. Saigyo on his travels, from a picture scroll of the Kamakura period, Saigyo mono gatari emaki, attributed to Tosa...of the emperor confronts the priest Saigyo 103...
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The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature
Book by Michele Marra; University of Hawaii Press, 1991
Subjects: Aesthetics, Medieval, Japanese Literature--1185-1600--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Japan
...reinterpretation. The Descent to the East" Azuma Kudari section of the Ise Monogatari is put, together with poems from Saigyo Sankashu and materials from the Genji Monogatari , into the context of her painful experiences in the Kanto region, while...
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Just Living: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Tonna
Book by Steven D. Carter; Columbia University Press, 2003
Subjects: Japanese Poetry--14th Century
...he chose not an earlier master such as Saigyo or Fujiwara no Shunzei or his son Teika...similar backgrounds most prominently, Saigyo, whom he looked to as a mentor had walked...allusive variation on Shin kokinshu 627, by Saigyo topic unknown : Ah, such loneliness...
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Intercultural Explorations
Book by Eugene Eoyang; Rodopi, 2005
Subjects: Cross-Cultural Studies--Congresses, Literature, Comparative--Congresses
...Kawabata Yasunari 215-222 Junichiro Takachi Transfiguration of the Madonna, the Moon and the Tree of Life Van Gogh, Saigyo, da Vinci, Dante and Munch 225 - 253 Alberto Caprioli La reception occidentale de la culture de IAsie de IEst dans le...
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Dialogues at One Inch above the Ground: Reclamations of Belief in an Interreligious Age
Journal article by John Berthrong; Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 26, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Dialogues at One Inch Above the Ground: Reclamations of Belief in an Interreligious Age (Book)--Book reviews
...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 Saigyos advice by focusing many of his articles on themes such as health and ecology...
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The Emergence of Kaidan-Shu: The Collection of Tales of the Strange and Mysterious in the Edo Period
Journal article by Noriko T. Reider; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 60, 2001
Subjects: Ghost stories--Japan, Horror tales--Japan, Japan--Literature, Japanese literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Supernatural in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII (1119--1164), corresponds to the shite who appears to the traveling priest Saigyo to expresses his anguish. Saigyo, on the other hand, corresponds to the waki, the character that introduces the audience to information...
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Basho and the Mastery of Poetic Space in Oku No Hosomichi
Journal article by Steven D. Carter; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 120, 2000
Subjects: Basho, Matsuo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Japan--Religion, Poetics--Religious aspects, Religion--Japan, Travel--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...hosomichi we have references not only to historical figures such as Saigyo and Yoshitsune, but also to a host of locals, from Buddha Gozaemon...Fujiwara, Yoshitsune, Kanefusa, Jikaku, Nojo, Gan Jiang, Moye, Saigyo, Empress Jingu, Sanemori, Kiso Yoshinaka, Higuchi no Jiro, Retired...
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An Allegory on the Banks of the Nile and Other Hazards of Intercultural Literary Comparison
Journal article by Earl Miner; College Literature, Vol. 23, 1996
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...difference between contemporaries writing in the same language. How different are Bo Juyi from Du Fu, Fujiwara Teika from Monk Saigyo, Shelley from Keats, Goethe from Schiller! But how different in other terms things seem after a second step, a comparison...
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Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2006-2007
Journal article by Phyllis E. Wachter, William Todd Schultz; Biography, Vol. 30, 2007
Subjects: Biographies--Bibliography, Biography--Bibliography
...recognition its material surface. Stoneman, Jack Chris. "Constructing Saigyo: Poetry, Biography, and Medieval Reception." Columbia, 2006. DAI-A 67.3 (Sept. 2006). Highlights Saigyos influence on his own mythification as one of Japans greatest waka...
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encyclopedia articles on: Saigyo  - 2 results

 
 
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Saigyo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAIGYO sai gyo, 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...physical and spiritual freedom reflected in his mature work. Saigyos extensive travels inspired verse on the pull of the secular...
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Sotatsu Tawaraya
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 illustrated...


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