#saigyo

[mountain-sage]

[thisbrilliantsky]

On young herbs, thinking of the past

by Saigyo (1118-1190) trans. by Burton Watson

Sad the haze in the meadow where I pick young herbs when I think how it shrouds me from the faraway past

[terracemuse]

[kamala-laxman]

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.” Saigyo

[the-path-inside]

Reflection

Image generated by the-path-inside using Stable Diffusion. View my other creations here. “Today's satori: Such a change of mind would Not exist without My lifelong habit of having My mind immersed in blossoms.” 

- Saigyo

[maggiecheungs]

Here, where no one can see me,

I shall give myself to grief.

‘Untitled’ by Saigyō, trans. Donald Keene

[wisdom-and-such]

“Saigyō in traditional poetry, Sōgi in linked verse, Sesshū in painting, Rikyū in tea ceremony, and indeed all who have achieved real excellence in any art, possess one thing in common, that is, a mind to obey nature, to be one with nature, throughout the four seasons of the year. Whatever such a mind sees is a flower, and whatever such a mind dreams of is the moon. It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind the dreams of other than the moon. The first lesson for the artist is, therefore, to learn how to overcome such barbarism and animality, to follow nature, to be one with nature.”

—Bashō the wandering poet 

[crazyfox-archives]

The poet Saigyō (西行) (1118-1190) writing a poem on the fence of Yagami Ōji Shrine (八上王子) along the road to Kumano, a detail from the thirteenth-century Saigyō Monogatari Emaki (西行物語絵巻), an illustrated handscroll biography of the poet

In the vicinity of current-day Yagami Jinja Shrine (八上神社) in Kamitonda, Wakayama Prefecture

Image from “The Arts of Shinto (Arts of Japan 4)” by Haruki Kageyama, Weatherhill/Shibundo, 1973, page 120