num_pages: 240
description:  Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are almost all written in the thirty-one syllable tanka form, the form most favored in Japanese court poetry.
language: English
title: Saigyo
titlecomplete: Saigyo
genres: Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Japan, Buddhism, Japanese Literature, Classics
ratings_count: 211
publisher: Columbia University Press