]> 2026-10-09T20:09:16-04:00 People/Saigyo 0 en A Japanese Buddhist poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, especially famous for his many waka poems, a traditional style of Japanese poetry; his dharma name literally means "Traveling West," presumably referring to the direction of the pure la n d of Amitābha. Born as Satō Norikiyo into a family of the warrior class, he served during his youth as a guard for the retired emperor Toba (r. 1107-1123) before becoming a monk at the age of twenty-two. Although relatively little is known about his life, Saigyō seems to have traveled around the country on pilgrimage before eventually settling in relative seclusion on Kōyasan, the headquarters of the Shingonshū. Virtually all of his poems are written in the thirty-one-syllable waka form favored at court and cover most of the traditional topics addressed in such poems, including travel, reclusion, cherry blossoms, and the beauty of the moon in the night sky. His poetry also reflects the desolation and despondency that Japanese of his time may have felt was inevitable during the degenerate age of the dharma (J. ''mappō''; C. ''mofa''). Saigyō's ''Sankashū'' ("Mountain Home Collection") includes some fifteen hundred poems written in the course of his career; ninety-four of these poems were included in the imperially sponsored waka collection, the ''Shinkokinshū'' ("New Collection of Ancient and Modern Times"), compiled in 1205, making him one of Japan’s most renowned and influential poets. (Source: "Saigyō." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 738. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) false false false Person false false false false People File:Saigyo Wikipedia.jpg https://commons.tsadra.org/images/7/7c/Saigyo_Wikipedia.jpg true true true File:Saigyo Wikipedia.jpg File:Saigyo Wikipedia.jpg Saigyō;西行法師;Saigyo false 西行 Saigyō 西行法師 Saigyo Wikipedia.jpg Saigyo Saigyō 西行法師 Classical Japanese Authors Saigyō Classical A Japanese Buddhist poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, especially famous for his many waka poems, a traditional style of Japanese poetry; his dharma name literally means "Traveling West," presumably referring to the direction of the pure la n d of Amitābha. Born as Satō Norikiyo into a family of the warrior class, he served during his youth as a guard for the retired emperor Toba (r. 1107-1123) before becoming a monk at the age of twenty-two. Although relatively little is known about his life, Saigyō seems to have traveled around the country on pilgrimage before eventually settling in relative seclusion on Kōyasan, the headquarters of the Shingonshū. Virtually all of his poems are written in the thirty-one-syllable waka form favored at court and cover most of the traditional topics addressed in such poems, including travel, reclusion, cherry blossoms, and the beauty of the moon in the night sky. His poetry also reflects the desolation and despondency that Japanese of his time may have felt was inevitable during the degenerate age of the dharma (J. ''mappō''; C. ''mofa''). Saigyō's ''Sankashū'' ("Mountain Home Collection") includes some fifteen hundred poems written in the course of his career; ninety-four of these poems were included in the imperially sponsored waka collection, the ''Shinkokinshū'' ("New Collection of Ancient and Modern Times"), compiled in 1205, making him one of Japan’s most renowned and influential poets. (Source: "Saigyō." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 738. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) Saigyo;西行法師;;Saigyō;;; ; ; 1118 1190 2020-08-03T21:39:13Z 2459065.4022338 2020-08-03T21:39:13Z 2459065.4022338 true People/Saigyo 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Saigyo]] People/Saigyo# QUERYd7d30d64a1616f14890e1d764d876c3f 0 200 1 template 13 <q>[[BuNayAuthor::Saigyo]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[People::Saigyo||People/Saigyo]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[Performer::People/Saigyo]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]]</q> People/Saigyo# QUERYb7b5035ec74f85cf5976fa2367b0a1e1 0 200 1 template 3 [[Category:Library Items]] [[BuNayTopicTags::People/Saigyo]] People/Saigyo# QUERYd42385316aa89cc3fe29e48a0a2cb90e Articles/Saigyō and the Buddhist Value of Nature, Part 1 0 en Saigyō and the Buddhist Value of Nature, Part 1 Saigyo 0 en Saigyo BuNayTopicTags 102 en BuNayTopicTags REDI 102 en REDI