Saigyo 西行
wandering monk · waka poet · late Heian Japan · 1118–1190
A monk who at twenty-three gave up his rank as a warrior and his family, took vows and spent his life wandering and making poems.
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12th century
If only there were one more who has learned to bear loneliness: we would build our huts side by side, in this mountain village in winter.
さびしさに堪へたる人のまたもあれな庵ならべむ冬の山里Shin kokin wakashu, poems of winter
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