Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home

Translated by Burton Watson

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Poetry

Series

• Translations from the Asian Classics

About the Author

Burton Watson is one of the world’s best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia.

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