Gazing at the Moon

Buddhist Poems of Solitude

Saigyo Saigyo, Meredith McKinney

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Shambhala Publications Inc
19 October 2021

Poetry

A fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of Saigyo, the wandering monk whose aesthetics of nature, love, and sorrow became foundational to the Japanese poetic tradition.

A fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of Saigyo, whose aesthetics of nature, love, and sorrow came to epitomize the Japanese poetic tradition.

Saigyo, the Buddhist name of Fujiwara no Norikiyo (1118-1190), is one of Japan's most famous and beloved poets. He was a recluse monk who spent much of his life wandering and seeking after the Buddhist way. Combining his love of poetry with his spiritual evolution, he produced beautiful, lyrical lines infused with a Buddhist perception of the world.

Gazing at the Moon presents over one hundred of Saigyo's tanka-traditional 31-syllable poems-newly rendered into English by renowned translator Meredith McKinney. This selection of poems conveys Saigyo's story of Buddhist awakening, reclusion, seeking, enlightenment, and death, embodying the Japanese aesthetic ideal of mono no aware-to be moved by sorrow in witnessing the ephemeral world.

By: Saigyo Saigyo, Meredith McKinney
Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781611809428
ISBN 10: 1611809428
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 19 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MEREDITH MCKINNEY is an award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese literature, whose translations include Sei Sh nagon's eleventh-century classic The Pillow Book, and Kokoro and Kusamakura by the early modern novelist Natsume S seki. After living and teaching for around 20 years in Japan, she returned to Australia in 1998 and now lives near the small town of Braidwood, in southeastern New South Wales. She is currently an honorary associate professor at the Japan Centre, Australian National University.