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Mirror for the Moon is the first selection ever to appear in English translation of the early medieval Japanese poet Saigyo. His poems are often biographical and reflect his deep sadness at the growing savagery of the times. Though written in traditional waka form of 31 syllables, his verse is charged with radical sentiment. Born Sato Norikiyo in Kyoto to a noble family, he lived during the traumatic transition of power between the old court nobles and the new samurai warriors. After the start of the Age of Mappo (1052), Buddhism was considered to be in decline and no longer as effective a means of salvation. These cultural shifts during his lifetime led to a sense of melancholy in his poetry. As a youth, he worked as a guard to retired Emperor Toba, but in 1140 at age 22, for reasons now unknown, he quit worldly life to become a monk, taking the religious name En'i. He later took the pen name, 'Saigyo' meaning Western Journey, a reference to Amida Buddha and the Western paradise.
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