Sunday, April 20, 2025

Saigyō Hōshi (西行法師) (1118-1190)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigy%C5%8D

Resources

  • Meredith McKinney. Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude, Shambhala Publications, 2021 ISBN 978-1611809428.
  • Saigyô, Poems of a Mountain Home, translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, 1991 ISBN 0-231-07492-1 cloth ISBN 0-231-07493-X pbk [233 pp.]
  • Saigyô, Mirror for the Moon: A Selection of Poems by Saigyô (1118-1190), translated by William R. LaFleur, New Directions 1978.
  • William R. LaFleur. Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyō.Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003 ISBN 0-86171-322-2 pbk [177 pp] This is an expanded and matured reworking of the material in Mirror for the Moon.