Saigyō
Sign in to saveAlso known as Priest Saigyo, Saigyo, Saigyou, Satō Norikiyo
was a Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1118
- Died
- 1190
- Works
- 36
Top works
- 西行
- 西行法師全歌集
- 山家集詳解
- 西行全集
- 異本山家集
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Japan
- Active from
- 1118
- Active to
- 1190
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Recent publications · Crossref
1 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “The pathway I markedwhen last year I made my wayinto Yoshino—I abandon now to visitblossoms I have not yet seen.”
- “What's to be done?I thought I was past caringfor the springbut my frozen water pipehas made me long for it again”
- “Let me not spend my lifelamenting the world’s sorrowsfor abovein the wide skythe moon shines pure”
- “That spring long agoat Naniwa in Tsu—was it all a dream?Now only dead leaves on the reedsrustle in the passing wind.”
- “That one back homewhom I promised to think aboutwhen I saw the moon:on this night perhaps she toowill be soaking her sleeves with tears.”
- “How I delightin this well-timed snowthat buries the mountain pathbehind me as I enterintent on long seclusion”
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Key facts
- Writer.name
- Saigyō Hōshi
- Writer.image
- Hyakuninisshu 086.jpg
- Writer.alt
- Saigyō Hōshi in the Hyakunin Isshu
- Writer.caption
- Saigyō Hōshi in the Hyakunin Isshu
- Writer.pseudonym
- Saigyō
- Writer.birth_name
- Satō Norikiyo
- Writer.birth_date
- 1118
- Writer.birth_place
- Kyoto, Japan
- Writer.occupation
- Poet
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- PORTRAIT OF THE PRIEST-POET SAIGYO - Google Art Project.jpg
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- Commons category
- Saigyō
- date of birth
- 1118-00-00
- date of death
- 1190-03-31
- name in native language
- 西行
- name in kana
- さいぎょう
- pseudonym
- 圓位
- Commons Creator page
- Saigyō
Sources (2)
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Saigyō, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
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- Legacy
- In popular culture
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was a Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.
==Biography== Born in Kyoto to a noble family, he lived during the traumatic transition of power between the old court nobles and the new samurai warriors. After the start of the age of Mappō, Buddhism was considered to be in decline and no longer as effective a means of salvation. These cultural shifts during his lifetime led to a sense of melancholy in his poetry. As a youth, he worked as a guard to retired Emperor Toba, but in 1140 at age 22, for reasons now unknown, he quit worldly life to become a monk, taking the religious name .