Saigyō
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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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1 total works indexed
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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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Key dates
- Born
- 1118
- Died
- 31 March 1190
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Saigyō, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
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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 .