Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home

Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are almost all written in the thirty-one syllable tanka form, the form most favored in Japanese court poetry.

Author: Saigyo
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 05/07/1992
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780231074933
ISBN10: 023107493X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Asian | General
- Poetry | Ancient & Classical

About the Author
Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia.