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...J. Thomas Rimer Mirror for the Moon. A Selection of Poems by Saigyō . Translated by William LaFleur . New York : New Directions , 1978 . xxvi, 100 pp. Bibliography, Index of First Lines. $10.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979...

... to the issues and problems of the courtly tradition in Japanese poetry. ROBERT E. MORRELL Washington University, St. Louis Mirror for the Moon. A Selection of Poems by Saigyo. Translated by WILLIAM LAFLEUR. New York: New Directions, 1978. xxvi, 100 pp. Bibliography, Index of First Lines. $10.95 (cloth); $2.95...

... version to the translator's best sense of the larger purposes of the poet. Some will doubtless find LaFleur's translations too informal, but the totality of the spiritual sketch he provides of Saigyo in Mirror for the Moon is both accessible and compelling. The flexibility of language he employs can give...

... Studies 7 ,1: 1 – 21 . Hiroshi Kuwabara , ed. 1976 . Mumyō;zō;shi , SNKS 7. Tokyo : Shinchō;sha. Hiroshi Kuwabara , trans. 1981 . Saigyō; Monogatari , Kō;dansha Gakujutsu Bunko 497. Tokyo : Kō;dansha . Lafleur William R. 1983 . The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary...

... treatment of Saigyo is somehow less successful, if only because Saigyo is so much a part of Japanese poetic tradition that his art is apt to seem hackneyed. When Igarashi writes, "Of the sights of nature Saigyo loved best the spring cherry-blossoms and the autumn moon (2:441 we may perversely wish...

... of slightly shopworn Chinese prose harking back to the Wen xuan.12 Third, Saigyo's most famous poem13 is cited as evidence for Kato's claim that "[i]n aristocratic culture spring meant flowers and flowers meant cherry blossoms, regardless of the natural distribution of Japanese flora. . . . This was regarded...

... Journey of 1684 .” Asia Major 7 : 131 –44. Keene Donald . 1971 . Landscapes and Portraits . Tokyo : Kodansha . King Winston . 1986 . Death Was His Koan: The Samurai-Zen of Suzuki Shōsan . Berkeley : Asian Humanities Press . Lafleur William R. 1973 . “ Saigyō...

... betrays a very limited understanding of Buddhism by applying Platonic interpretations to a poem by Basho (p. 19) and a statement about emptiness attributed to Saigyo (p. 23). Much of the text is descriptive information about ritual with literature presented as examples or outgrowths of it. Unfortunately...

... to the familiar wayfarers, Saigyo and Basho; or we are pointed in the direction of other discriminating topics, the cognoscenti favorites of recent years: Kuki Shuzo's Iki no kozo and Mori Ogai's Shibue Chusai. Pilgrimages also champions, in a paradoxical way, the case for an expanded and "international" view...

..., through the works of the early poets Saigyo (twelfth century) and Kenko (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries), and the writings of Zen teachers such as Dogen (thirteenth century), Suzuki Shosan (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), and Hakuin (seven- 815 . 816 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES teenth...

... and suicide of the Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danzo VIII, an imaginary account of a deliciously fraudulent and licentious holy man, fictionalized lives of Chogen, Saigyo, and Kukai, the trials of a young man who quit a dead-end job in a potato chip factory to go on the pilgrimage, the career of Frederick Starr...

... "Shiramine" ["White Peak of Ugetsu monogatari, for example, the wa\a poet, Saigyo (1118-1190), engages the ghost of the Emperor Sutoku in a dispute about the relative virtues of Buddhist and Confucian world views. Saigyo reprimands the emperor's ghost for defending Mencius's mandate of heaven theory: Strange...

.... This is a play in which the courtesan of Eguchi, who was made famous in a setsuwa for a waka exchange with the monk Saigyo, appears as a ghost and dances for a traveling monk and then transforms into the Bodhisattva Fugen. Kawashima focuses on how the text portrays the courtesan as a woman who "expresses remorse...

... devotional images and didactic illustration popular in the Heian and Kamakura eras. Yamada Shozen gives a straightforward account of the development of Lotus poetry in the Heian period, followed by a look at three famous poets from the end of that era: Saigyo, Jien, and Shunzei. More ambitious...

..., this may be a conscious limitation of topic, but he betrays a very limited understanding of Buddhism by applying Platonic interpretations to a poem by Basho (p. 19) and a statement about emptiness attributed to Saigyo (p. 23). Much of the text is descriptive information about ritual with literature...

...). In some cases, more care should have been exercised in the citation and translation of Japanese texts. This problem is most damaging in the chapter on the aesthetics oi Shinkokinshu where poems by Gishumon'in and Saigyo are misquoted and Teika's celebrated waka on the beauty of a monochromatic autumn dusk...

... account of a deliciously fraudulent and licentious holy man, fictionalized lives of Chogen, Saigyo, and Kukai, the trials of a young man who quit a dead-end job in a potato chip factory to go on the pilgrimage, the career of Frederick Starr (an eccentric University of Chicago anthropologist who paraded...

... of perfected art, whether in the breathtaking final speeches of Shakespeare's King Lear, Hitomaro's grand vision of human identity in his poem on a dead body on the island of Samine, or Saigyo's (1118-90) poems of retirement.29 The Japanese did indeed turn to the past and simpler people in the present to bring...

... oddities. The narratives and other materials that give these places meaning, and even augment the legends of the stations, include other legends; biographies of famous people associated with the area; accounts of historical events; long quotes from the Japanese classics; innumerable poems (from Saigyo...

... of Priest Saigyo. Kokka 769 (Mar. 1956), 103-13 (in Japanese); (English summary at end). ROBINSON, BASIL WILLIAM. A primer of Japanese sword-blades. Leatherhead (Sy Dyer the Printer, 1955. 95 p. front, (map), ill., plates, tables. UCHIDA, YOSHIKO. Tamba; in this village, the anonymous folk art tradition...