Fujiwara Teika

Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241) was a Japanese poet who often wrote about nature and chiefly produced waka poetry which is similar to Chinese poetics.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Howsoever far I gaze

Neither cherry blossoms nor
Crimson leaves are in sight.
Only a fisherman's hut on the shore
In the autumnal evening.

Looking about
I see no cherry blossoms
And no cromson leaves
A straw-thatched hut by a bay
In the autumn dusk.
- Shin Kokinshu

Chingiz Khan