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« Les mots arrangés en versets ne sont-ils pas tous la Vraie Parole ? En chantant une fleur, la pensée ne s'arrête pas à la fleur, en chantant la lune, la pensée ne se fixe pas sur la lune. Mais la composition suit l'infinie variété des circonstances et se plie à l'état de l'émotion. » Ainsi s'exprime Saigyô (1118-1190), sans doute le poète le plus révéré du Japon ancien. Les cent quatorze poèmes regroupés ici sont pour la plupart extraits du Sanka shû, « Recueil de la demeure dans la montagne », oeuvre presque millénaire et extrêmement populaire aujourd'hui encore. Les vers habités de ce fils d'une grande famille de guerriers, qui prit l'habit monastique à vingt-trois ans pour se consacrer à la poésie, sont ici proposés en version bilingue, traduits par les poètes Hiromi Tsukui et Abdelwahab Meddeb. Les oeuvres calligraphiques qui accompagnent le texte font résonner le timbre délicat de cette poésie du corps, de l'esprit, du coeur.
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First published March 1, 2004
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Saigyō
33 books32 followersSaigyō Houshi (西行 法師, 1119 – March 23, 1190) was a famous Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.
Born Satou Norikiyo (佐藤 義清) 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 (1052), 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 En'i (円位). He later took the pen name, "Saigyo" meaning Western Journey, a reference to Amida Buddha and the Western paradise. He lived alone for long periods in his life in Saga, Mt Koya, Mt Yoshino, Ise, and many other places, but he is more known for the many long, poetic journeys he took to Northern Honshuu that would later inspire Basho in his Narrow Road to the Interior. He was a good friend of Fujiwara no Teika. Some main collections of Saigyo's work are in the Sankashuu, Shin Kokin Wakashuu, and Shika Wakashū. He died in Hirokawa Temple in Kawachi Province (present-day Osaka Prefecture) at age 72.
Born Satou Norikiyo (佐藤 義清) 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 (1052), 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 En'i (円位). He later took the pen name, "Saigyo" meaning Western Journey, a reference to Amida Buddha and the Western paradise. He lived alone for long periods in his life in Saga, Mt Koya, Mt Yoshino, Ise, and many other places, but he is more known for the many long, poetic journeys he took to Northern Honshuu that would later inspire Basho in his Narrow Road to the Interior. He was a good friend of Fujiwara no Teika. Some main collections of Saigyo's work are in the Sankashuu, Shin Kokin Wakashuu, and Shika Wakashū. He died in Hirokawa Temple in Kawachi Province (present-day Osaka Prefecture) at age 72.
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