The Exhilarating Finish of Saigyo

#Saigyō #サイゴー 94 (1979) Yami harete Kokoro no sora ni Sumu tsuki wa Nishi no yamabe ya Chikaku naruran The pure moon Which has cleared up the darkness And shines in the sky of my mind Must be nearing The region of the Western mountain Last poem of the Shinkokinshu By Saigyo Robert Sewell A Study of Saigyo with Translations from his poems in the Shinkokinshu 1967 Rutgers University Community Repository