45: Saigyō: a poet monk

One of the influential travel poets and priests is Saigyō,  who lived when the world was changing drastically in his lifetime in the early 12th century in Japan. I look at the most well-known poem by him, who loved cherry blossoms and the moon.

Saigyō  西行 

願わくば (negawakuba)

花の下にて (hana no shita nite) 

春死なん (haru shinan)

その如月の (sono kisaragi no)

望月の頃 (mochizuki no koro)

Hokumen no bushi 北面の武士
The imperial palace guards for the north side 

Taira no Kiyomori 平清盛

Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝

Shin kokin waka shū  新古今和歌集
New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern 

Hyakunin Isshu  百人一首
One hundred people, one poem

Oku no Hosomichi 奥の細道
The Narrow Road to the Interrior

Sanka shū 山家集
Collection of a Mountain Home

Hirokawa-dera temple 弘川寺

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