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Awesome Nightfall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Awesome Nightfall

Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyo captures the power of Saigyo's poetry and this previously overlooked poet's keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan. It also offers a fascinating look into the world of Japanese Buddhism prior to the wholesale influence of Zen.

The Tale of Saigyō
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

The Tale of Saigyō

A moving portrait of a wandering poet-monk in medieval Japan.

Gazing at the Moon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 157

Gazing at the Moon

A fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of Saigyō, whose aesthetics of nature, love, and sorrow came to epitomize the Japanese poetic tradition. Saigyō, the Buddhist name of Fujiwara no Norikiyo (1118–1190), is one of Japan’s most famous and beloved poets. He was a recluse monk who spent much of his life wandering and seeking after the Buddhist way. Combining his love of poetry with his spiritual evolution, he produced beautiful, lyrical lines infused with a Buddhist perception of the world. Gazing at the Moon presents over one hundred of Saigyō’s tanka—traditional 31-syllable poems—newly rendered into English by renowned translator Meredith McKinney. This selection of poems conveys Saigyō’s story of Buddhist awakening, reclusion, seeking, enlightenment, and death, embodying the Japanese aesthetic ideal of mono no aware—to be moved by sorrow in witnessing the ephemeral world.

Awesome Nightfall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Awesome Nightfall

Awesome Nightfall captures the power of Saigyo's poetry and this previously overlooked poet's keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan. It also offers a fascinating look into the world of Japanese Buddhism prior to the wholesale influence of Zen. LaFleur's much-heralded translation and commentary make this book ideal both for the poetry lover, and for the professor and student of Asian arts and languages.

Saigyō (1118-1190), the Poet of Reflective Being and Natural Scene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 113

Saigyō (1118-1190), the Poet of Reflective Being and Natural Scene

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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Saigyō, Poems of a Mountain Home
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Saigyō, Poems of a Mountain Home

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. It exists on large and small scales and thrives in unexpected places. Finding activism in backyards, art classes, and urban areas branded as "ghettos," these anthropologists explore the many routes people take to work toward social change. Ten absorbing studies present activist groups across the country--from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans. Each one examines a social change effort as it unfolds on the ground. Through their anthropological approach these portraits of American society suggest t...

Tale of Saigyo
  • Language: en

Tale of Saigyo

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Saigyō (1118-1190) as a Love Poet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Saigyō (1118-1190) as a Love Poet

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Saigyō (1112-1190) as a Love Poet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

Saigyō (1112-1190) as a Love Poet

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Traditional Japanese Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 601

Traditional Japanese Literature

Traditional Japanese Literature features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the evolution of Japan's noted aristocratic court and warrior cultures. It contains stunning new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike as well as works and genres previously ignored by scholars and unknown to general readers.