Gusai

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Gusai ( Japanese 救 済 , also: Kyūzei , Kyūzai , Kyūsei or Kasai read) (* 1284 ; † April 5, 1378 ) was a Japanese Zen monk and Renga poet.

Gusai studied Waka poetry with Reizei Tamesuke , a son of Fujiwara no Tameies . He emerged as the author of Waka poems around 1315 , after which nothing is known about his life for twenty years. In 1339 he reappears as a participant in a Renga competition.

In the following years he teamed up with Nijō Yoshimoto , with whom he compiled the first Renga anthology Tsukuba-shū ( 菟 玖 波 集 ) in 1357 , which also included more than 120 of his own poems, as well as theoretical writings on Renga. In 1355 he took part in a Renga composition ( 文 和 千 句 , Bunna Senku ) of 1000 wakas in the Yoshimoto's house.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 沢 井 耐 三 : 救 済 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, accessed December 27, 2011 (Japanese).
  2. ^ A b c Earl Roy Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature . 2nd Edition. Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-691-00825-6 , pp. 159 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Frédéric: 136 poems; Miner, Odagiri, Morell: 126 poems, 沢 井 耐 三 : 127 poems
  4. ^ Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 269 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
personal data
SURNAME Gusai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 救 済 (Japanese); Kyūzai (alternative reading); Kyūsei (alternative reading); Kasai (alternative reading); Kyūzei (alternative reading)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese Zen monk and Renga poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1284
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1378