Saigyo Poetry Reading

davidsmith208
Apr 15, 2018
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We read Saigyo to celebrate the cherry blossom season.

Reading from A Study of Saigyo with translations of his poems in the Shinkokinsu

Robert G. Sewell Masters Thesis Univ of Columbia 1967 from Rutgers SOAR Scholarly Open Access Rutgers

Rutgers Scholarly Open Access

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