Fujiwara no Teika

right|thumb|200px|From the beginningI knew meeting could onlyEnd in parting, yetI ignored the coming dawnAnd I gave myself to you. Fujiwara no Teika (1162 – September 26, 1241) was a Japanese anthologist, calligrapher, literary critic, poet, and scribe of the late Heian and early Kamakura period. Quotes 和歌に師匠なし。たゞ旧き歌をもつて師となす。心を古風に染め、詞を先達に習はば、誰人かこれを詠ぜざらんや。 There are no teachers of Japanese poetry. But they who take the old poems as their teachers, steep their minds in the old style, and learn their words from the masters of former time — who of them will fail to write poetry? Variant translation:In poetry there are no teachers. One makes antiquity one’s teacher. Provided he steep his mind in the styles of antiquity and learn his diction from the great poets of old, who can fail to compose good poetry? Essentials of Poetic Composition (詠歌大概 Eiga no Taigai) On this spring nightthe floating bridge of my dreamshas broken away:and lifting off a far peak—a cloud-bank in empty sky. The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin, 1987, Steven D. Carter From the beginningI knew meeting could onlyEnd in parting, yetI ignored the coming dawnAnd I gave myself to you. 100 More Poems from the Japanese, 1976, Kenneth Rexroth Quotes about In this art of poetry, those who speak ill of Teika should be denied the protection of the gods and Buddhas and condemned to the punishments of hell. Attributed to Shotetsu in Conversations with Shotetsu (Shotetsu Monogatari), 1992, Robert H. Bower See also Saigyo Basho Shotetsu External links Category:Poets from Japan Category:Literary critics Category:Novelists from Japan Category:Buddhists from Japan Category:Philologists Category:Diarists Category:People from Kyoto Category:1160s births Category:1240s deaths