Kisen
Illustration — Kisen Hōshi, from the Hyakunin Isshu. 810-824 CE) was an early Heian period Buddhist monk and waka poet. Little is known about his life other than that he lived in Mount Uji.
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Kisen
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Illustration — Kisen Hōshi, from the Hyakunin Isshu. 810-824 CE) was an early Heian period Buddhist monk and waka poet. Little is known about his life other than that he lived in Mount Uji.
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When Ki no Tsurayuki wrote the Japanese preface of the Kokinshū, he selected Kisen as one of the six poetic sages whose work was to be considered as superior. Tsurayuki says the following to comment on Kisen's work: The use of words is a delicate thing—from start to end it does not express the thing that actually is. That is to say, to speak of the autumn moon, one compares it to the clouds at dawn. Sometimes said to be the author of the poetry collection Waka sakushiki, also known as the Kisen-shiki, but it is probably apocryphal and created well after the end of the Heian period. The following two eika are the only poems that can be confidently traced back to him:
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi / Utagawa Hiroshige / Utagawa Kunisada · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1295913380, Kisen, Shūshō.
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