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Saigyo
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“The pathway I marked when last year I made my way into Yoshino— I abandon now to visit blossoms I have not yet seen.”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991), Steven D. Carter
“What's to be done? I thought I was past caring for the spring but my frozen water pipe has made me long for it again”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude (2021), McKinney, M.
“Let me not spend my life lamenting the world’s sorrows for above in the wide sky the moon shines pure”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude (2021), McKinney, M.
“That spring long ago at Naniwa in Tsu— was it all a dream? Now only dead leaves on the reeds rustle in the passing wind.”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991), Steven D. Carter
“That one back home whom I promised to think about when I saw the moon: on this night perhaps she too will be soaking her sleeves with tears.”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991), Steven D. Carter
“How I delight in this well-timed snow that buries the mountain path behind me as I enter intent on long seclusion”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude (2021), McKinney, M.
“This is what I want: to die in the springtime, beneath the blossoms— midway through the Second Month, when the moon is at the full.”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991), Steven D. Carter
“In a dream I saw the winds of spring scattering the cherry blossoms— and after I woke, the sound was still rustling in my breast.”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991), Steven D. Carter
“The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom.”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (2008)
“It creates a heart even in those among us who think of themselves as indifferent to all things— the world. this first wind of autumn.”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991), Steven D. Carter
“If not for solitude, how dismal my life would be!”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991), Steven D. Carter
“Even a person free of passion would be moved to sadness: autumn evening in a marsh where snipes fly up.”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, 1991, Watson, Burton, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 81
“風になびく 富士の煙の 空にきえて ゆくへも知らぬ わが思ひかな kaze ni nabiku fuji no keburi no sora ni kiete yukue mo shiranu waga omoi kana”
Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Literature of Mt Fuji: Japanese Classical Literature, Chuo University (2017)