Manuscript On Paper Entitled Saigyo Hoshi Kashu The Personal Collection Of The Buddhist Priest

by Saigyo

$3,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

46 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. wrappers, new stitching. Japan : early Edo period . A collection of poetry by “one of the most influential figures of the Japanese court poetry tradition” Burton Watson, trans., Saigyō: Poems of a Mountain Home Columbia: 1991 , p. 2 . These poems were written at a time of social unrest and political change, when the imperial system of rule that had characterized the Heian period was superseded by the

• Binding: Wrappers

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