Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home

by Saigyō

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023107493X
• ISBN13: 9780231074933
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 9.1"