{"product_id":"gazing-at-the-moon-by-saigyo-saigyo-9781611809428","title":"Gazing at the Moon","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of Saigyo, the wandering monk whose aesthetics of nature, love, and sorrow became foundational to the Japanese poetic tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of Saigyo, whose aesthetics of nature, love, and sorrow came to epitomise the Japanese poetic tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSaigyo, the Buddhist name of Fujiwara no Norikiyo (1118-1190), is one of Japan's most famous and beloved poets. He was a recluse monk who spent much of his life wandering and seeking after the Buddhist way. Combining his love of poetry with his spiritual evolution, he produced beautiful, lyrical lines infused with a Buddhist perception of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGazing at the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e presents over one hundred of Saigyo's tanka—traditional 31-syllable poems—newly rendered into English by renowned translator Meredith McKinney. This selection of poems conveys Saigyo's story of Buddhist awakening, reclusion, seeking, enlightenment, and death, embodying the Japanese aesthetic ideal of \u003cem\u003emono no aware\u003c\/em\u003e—to be moved by sorrow in witnessing the ephemeral world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596463554796,"sku":"9781611809428","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b74f4d9c77f8d67d133c2197fc02796f.jpg?v=1777936288","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/gazing-at-the-moon-by-saigyo-saigyo-9781611809428","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}