{"id":15495,"date":"2020-03-15T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leafkyoto.net\/makai\/2020\/03\/ryumonbashi\/"},"modified":"2020-03-15T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:00:10","slug":"ryumonbashi","status":"publish","type":"makai","link":"https:\/\/www.leafkyoto.net\/en\/makai\/2020\/03\/ryumonbashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Arashiyama's Ryumon Bridge filled with poetry Saigyo's songs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I grieve and think of the moon and things\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>My tears are falling from my awkward face.<\/strong><\/em>
(Grieve, and let the moon make you think, not so much of my tears that flow for love, but because of the moon.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The 86th of the 100th.A poem written by Saigyo Hoshi<\/strong>It is. Saigyo was a poet of natural talent. He came from a prestigious family and was a samurai (the emperor's personal guard) on the northern side of Emperor Toba, but renounced the secular world at a young age and became a monk. He then traveled around the country and left behind many poems wherever he went. Among them are many love poems, but one theory is,A broken heart led me to renounce the mundane world.<\/strong>It is also said that.<\/p>\n

This Saigyo established a hermitage,Sagano, west of Kyoto.<\/strong>Saigyo must have often walked in the Arashiyama area.The following episode can be found on the \"Ryumon Bridge\" that spans the road leading east in front of the Tenryuji Temple gate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Saigyo passed by this bridge, a child appeared from the other side and tried to recite a poem. Saigyo did not treat him like a child and immediately replied with a poem. However, the child responded with more poems. Saigyo was impressed and replied, \"Oh, really? However, the child immediately replied again. They recited poems to each other like a question and answer session,At last, the poet lost his patience and became stuck in his poem and could not return it. The bridge became known as \"Utazume Bridge\" after Saigyo, the great poet, was defeated by the poet's return poem.<\/strong>That's what it means.<\/p>\n

I visited the current Longmen Bridge. It is a small bridge, blending into the cityscape, and not many people stop to visit. However, a sign at the foot of the bridge says that Saigyo composed a poem at a liquor store located at the foot of the bridge and was stuck in replying to the poem.<\/p>\n