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, * Abstract
reading experience.
and at other times observed them i n ways a native Chinese poet would
not approve of. Despite h i s bending and breaking of the rules and,
iii
or "bad".
Table of Contents
page
Preface vi
Introduction 1
Chapter Two ^7
Chapter Threel 69
Translations , 82
Abbreviations , 311
Footnotes 312
Bibliography 322
vi.
Preface
Profs. Ken Bryant and Jan Walls conducted some three years ago at
U.B.C. Moreover, Ken Bryant was kind enough to give the rough
improving the style and organization of the work. Thanks are also
due Prof. Shotaro I i d a and Kathy Hansen who took the time t o read
His energy and the joy he takes i n learning have been a constant
3
ix.
strange and marvelous thing that everyone has the sense of secretly
having met him somewhere before. I s he not perhaps the only one
Japan?
Yanagida Seizan*
r
1.
and a l l the rest, so that i n the end they would ignore karma and
daily lives."
gold,
Do no e v i l , do much good.
cendental view that sees the two as one. Following the composition
2.
to the other.
i s from a Chinese Zen text, the Ch'uan Teng Lu. The passage des-
and the Zen master, Niao K'e % "Bird Nest", so named because
i n another poem about B i r d Nest, "His nest must have been cold,
I t i s much i n the same vein as Chao Chou's T^H 'ifl answer "No" t o
the question, "Does the dog have a Buddha nature?",-* when the
order of the poem from here on. Next comes a quotation of Bird
who i s introduced i n t o the poem, and he who must have sung, "Do
l i p s of Bird Nest and being echoed by Ryozen. Now they issue from
we have come to drunken song. Where the ground was s o l i d now all
Nest, Po Chu'-i went home, got drunk and then t r u l y awakened to the
But that i s how i t should be. The goal of Zen i s not to answer
out of h i s reasoning mind. That i s the art of the Jcoan, the Zen
that i s a koan. The majority of Ikkyu's poems are not simply about
f i n d the Path of truth, but they must not be confused with that
sums up the role words perform i n Zen. They can d i r e c t our gaze
toward the moon, the symbol f o r truth, but they cannot be the moon.
distinctions."
the plane of d u a l i t y .
to grasp.
duality?"
Hsiieh-tou said, "What d i d V i m a l a k i r t i say?" He also
said, "Completely exposed."13
One never allows the debate to come to an end. When someone asks
answer) then one surprises him with non-duality (as Ikkyu does with
his poem).'
The Poet
Self-Praise
I mark out the South, I mark out the North, the East
and West.^
to w r i t i n g a n t i - c l e r i c a l poetry.
c a t i o n i s perfect;
t a t i o n floors?
Straw sandals and bamboo s t i c k , roaming the T r i p l e Sphere,
20
I Hate Incense
grow longer.
I have always d i s l i k e d p i e t y .
i.
I n the darkness, my nose wrinkles, incense before the Buddha.
which i s t o say that both Ikkyu and Y5so studied with the same
master Kaso b u t Yoso was Ikkyu's senior. For Ikkyu, Yoso was the
14.
to:
sake.23
amusing picture, and on the surface makes the statement of the poem
to h i s p u p i l s , " i f you are going to drink sake, then you must always
the world.
ing Ikkyu's poems about brothels. This was a period of great moral
r e l i g i o u s views.
disappears.
I n s c r i p t i o n f o r a Brothel
sing.
he obviously had a deeper concern with the subject. For Ikkyu, sex
was well aware of that himself. The breaking of the monastic code
to p h y s i c a l pleasure.
times as a fox."^*
In the poem above Ikkyu speaks o f his f e a r that his own Zen
was one that ignored karma. The f i r s t l i n e of the poem that opened
problem.
gaze with equanimity upon one's own and a l l beings' weakness, see-
much i n the style of the great T'ang masters. Zen i s a school that
of monasticism.
Zen monasteries and to the reformation within the Pure Land school
the past are seldom seen. I n the poetry and discourse of Hsii-^'ang,
their office.
most of i t s support from the Imperial Court rather than the great
the general tenor of his poetry and many elements i n i t have ante-
duced by h i s contemporaries.
secular themes. The Gozan poets were f o r the most part employing
25.
t i c expression.
The Audience
Ikkyu's audience was probably very small. Often one gets the
&i W a n d a
^ l e a s t one merchant of the free port Sakai. As
ledge and not a spoken knowledge. Like the poet himself, none of
Buddhist scriptures other than those of the Zen school, and the
i n poem No. 234, "On the horns of a snail" which has the prover-
metaphor of the "burning house" from the Lotus Sutra that appears
and Huang
are from a single anthology, the San T ' i Shih. which enjoyed an
year 146"0. Someone i n the midst of the general woe has having a
d r i f t f a r away.
i s over.
Pavilion.
Pavilion."
the one hand, many people are suffering, on the other, unfeeling
ment, "Let i t be, l e t the bright moon sink behind the Western
that were the sources f o r most of the koans. Next would come the
mental l i b r a r y .
Zen scriptures.
was writing f o r .
The fact that Ikkyu was writing f o r such a small audience with a
incense" and the "Crazy madman" poems, quoted i n the section about
ment.
strated how Ikkyu at times broke the rules of Chinese prosody and
"bad".
unsettles and pivots the mind round to face a problem that cannot
36.
Chapter One
'Those who follow rules are asses, those who break the rules are men"
i s one of the few languages i n the world that i s not written with
One can assume that Ikkyu, being ignorant of Chinese sound, would
i s the cHi yen chiieh chii -t- " f ^ JaJ ( J . shichigon zekku) a verse
The chii yen chiieh chii was e s p e c i a l l y popular among Zen monks, both
perhaps no Chinese poet would ever do; he uses the same rhyme
that rhyme a l l end with the same word. Repeating any item of voca-
iribo yuga ya t a j o
nahen h i i na hen ze
Ji
i n that p a r t i c u l a r poem not only the rhyme word, but several items
mushi mushu ga i s s h i n
set. Indeed, nine poems of the twenty-five use exactly the same
set of rhyme words, U'? g i n "sing", > ^ shin "deep", and shin
can hear the Chinese poet say, "What paucity of vocabulary! The
words encapsulate something about the poet; his heart was deep and
he sang i t out.
I n No. 77, the same combination, i n the same order, describes T'ao
42
the same word gin.) Sometimes the rhyme words taken separately
rhyme words i n combination with the sense of the whole poem does
c a r r i e d on with Ming China, and the rhyme words again sum up the
concern.
Yet, one s t i l l perceives the text as Chinese on the page, and the
emphasis. The matching of the sense the rhyme words make together
eyes and, more importantly, Chinese ears. When I asked him about
use of vocabulary, but then he said, "Do you know what i s the very
44.
rhythm of the seven character l i n e . " I n the chiieh chii, the seven
cover the sense. For the poet t o break that rhythm i s to make i t
f r u s t r a t i n g i n that way.
;S ^ .JSL ^ JL #-
(of) wine, sippedttiree cups. s t m l i p s
I JL TL )t fA m $-
- 41 m fVj t # f
(in) one second's space. 1 0 ^ 0 0 k a l p a , s p f t i n
45.
is:
i n one language and given sound i n another. For the poet who was
i n whatever way he could. With Chinese poetry, Ikkyu kept the rules
the bold and even crude way i n which his Chinese i s used. Further-
more, i t must not be forgotten that his intended audience was not
Chinese. They were people who could read Chinese well, but who
Chapter Two
complete.
to reread the entire piece, prose and poem, the force of the
allusion.
tic effect.
ment i n t o the poem that collapses the frame of reference the poem
No. 107
line. Lines one and two e s t a b l i s h and develop the theme, the monks
the monastic rabble. Line four describes the poet's actual state,
poor and cooking with a broken pot, but the implication i s that
the one who looks our Master i n the eye, the one who i s worthy
No. 57
ment with the phrase, "Ah, the plum has ripened." This i s alluded
sage i n the Ch'uan Teng Lu. Taimei answered the question, "How
long have you been here?" with "Four times only have I seen the
mountains turn green and then yellow." Now the expression i s turned
No. 206
sake, then you must always drink muddy sake, and f o r t i d b i t s just
The lament of him who "embraced the sands" and cast himself
times. The source here i s the passage from the Book of History
of that passage.
are drunk and I alone am sober." The fisherman counters CHii Yuan's
lament with some s a l t y wisdom, "A true sage does not s t i c k at mere
them?t CHii Yuan r e j e c t s the advice and, composing the rhyme prose
The reader would probably begin t o think of CR'u Yuan when he per-
remark, " a l l men are drunk, I alone am sober." The word "men",
which relates to CHu Ytian's " a l l the world" and " a l l men", and
would be quite sure CHii Yuan was being alluded t o . Then the a l l u -
No. 77
Arhat Chrysanthemums
T'ien T ' a i .
robes. "Breeze and dew on the East Hedge" i s the key t o the a l l u -
themums by the East hedge." But why, apart from the chrysanthemum
next phrase, "a heart that has l e f t the dust behind", i s a con-
and onions f o r the Arhats, but the reader i s not surprised; he has
No. 49
poem. Here there are three. "To hear a sound and awaken to the
of a laudatory verse i n the same style as the poem about "Big Plum",
was the odd man out because he never awakened to the Way? Or
that T'ao was the only enlightened Buddha of the three, but i t i s
No. 493
river.
on the bamboo stalk were the marks of.the tears shed by Lord
merely suggests the story of Lord Shun's wives and then follows
Shun f o r whom the tears that mottled the bamboo were shed. The
history of the Chin dynasty. Therein, Wang' Hui Jj. ^$!J^ replied,
reference f o r the l a s t .
t e l l s us, "I love bamboo as much as Wang Hui, who could not bear to
t l e d bamboo" are i n harmony with the theme of the poem. One might
and because of the layering of the image " r a i n on the bamboo" over
63.
i n t e n s i t y of d i a l e c t i c a l experience.
No. 45
Buddha and the bare post commune with one another. This
mountain, i t r a i n s . "
on the south side of the mountain make i t rain on the north side?
of the Yangtze. How did these two features of the Chinese lands-
that something else might have gone on between the old Buddha and
that, then the next l i n e i n which "cloud r a i n " and "dream" figure,
renders i t obvious.
she said, "I dwell on the south slope of Wushan and the
old Buddha was doing to the bare post or vice versa that could
"In the morning, I make the cloud, i n the evening, I make the r a i n . "
66.
evening, I make the r a i n " , but then the mention of Nan-yiieh takes
T'ien T'ai and Nan-yiieh are thus related; they represent two
mountains and two people, one the master, the other the d i s c i p l e .
Ikkyu may have i n mind here i s what became known as the "Three-
himself.
brings together the sacred and profane, the King and the sorceress,
the old Buddha and the bare post are there. There i s some f a m i l i a r
Also the way i n which "In the morning...In the evening..." has
two or possibly three referends reminds one of how i n No. 493 " t h i s
l o r d " refers to Lord Shun and to Wang Hui's bamboo. I t i s just that
one loses track of where they end. Ikkyu wants h i s reader to lose
Chapter Three
from No. 71
into one another. On the surface the poet says one thing but a
the opposite and cancels the surface theme out. I t i s i n this way
i n the measure that they leave the reader suspended with "not a
was noted i n Chapter one that Ikkyu wrote only the short f o u r - l i n e
form of Chinese verse known as the chueh ch'u. This suggests that
No. 69
wiping bums.
The Dragon Palace Sea Treasury toys with words and phrases.
i t once and I ' l l say i t again." The addition of the word "paper"
rewarded when the Buddha not only bestows a holy l i b r a r y upon him
"toys with words and phrases", we see that reverence vanish. The
can see the sheets of paper, radiant whie with reflected moon l i g h t ,
picture also suggests that t h i s i s what must be done with the Blue
poem the Blue C l i f f Record had not yet been granted i n c l u s i o n i n the
poem state:
No. 70
but we are not t o l d what kind. The personal voice of the poet
ashamed not to equal a beast. Why? What can a beast do that the
pages we saw scattered before the moon at the end of the preceding
the l i n e ,
76.
recognition, rather than state that the reader and the poet are
trapped i n the words that t e l l them to get free, lead the reader
Wo. 71.
north side, i t r a i n s .
fragrant.
done "without ado". The reader has been cued by a l l that precedes
the poet w i l l be able to close the poem and the whole series when
and meaning.
that begins, "The old Buddha and the bare post commune with one
but not only that. The contract made by the t i t l e , and indeed
to t h i s koan.
i n the eye.
In the land of great T'ang, they have not yet struck the
drum.
The scatological connection has been made again, and i n the apprecia-
tory verse the leap has been made from the topic of the i n t e r -
beyond that d i s t i n c t i o n .
Conclusion
based on the Okumura text and most modern scholars have followed
manuscript. 1
Thus, the remarks that follow about the organization
there are also series of poems which do not share the same t i t l e
but appear to have been written around the same time and form
an autobiographical narrative.
only from the view point of the whole, the actual reading exper-
be to read the poem and the commentary through once and then reread
86.
No. 17
and l e f t
No." 17
Notes:
formalized Zen.
No. 33
! t * t i l I lis
90.
No. 33
" A l l those who would study Zen and l e a r n the Way must be pure
matters which even the Buddhas and the Devils have d i f f i c u l t y even
and thus bewitches the sons and daughters of others; who, i n his
how can you boast of yourself i n the world; how can you adulate
suffer from leprosy and never hear even the name of the Buddha's
epilogue, I say:
mind w i l l be busy.
tea.
92.
No. 33
notes:
Master Ryozen TettS's sermon: Master Ryozen Tetto fjf. '^T *R)
o r a l presentation.
a l i f e or death s i t u a t i o n .
94
No. 35
the sun.
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95.
No. 35
notes:
Following waves, chasing waves, how much red dust?: The phrase
Word Barrier and the Three Phrases, How many people have red
and t h e i r souls?
97.
No. 37
I say, that from t h i s morning, the days are one thread longer.
0 If it
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98.
No. 37
notes:
day of the whole year and from the next day the days lengthen,
No. 40
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No. 40
notes:
incarnation as a man.
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102.
No. 44
notes:
See No. 2 0 9 :
16
with", the wind blows f a i r from behind. That i n t e r p r e t a -
Ears from the beginning are two pieces of skin: "Ears are two
big f i s h " . "Tusks and. teeth, one set of bones" caps "In
one, two, three; three, two, one: Again within the same t r a d i -
three, four, five".- then caps "In the back garden the donkey
18
of d u a l i t y .
Nan-chuan, with perfect confidence, k i l l e d the cut: an a l l u s i o n
not k i l l i t . "
No one i n the assembly answered. Nan-chuan
19
cut the cat i n two.
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106.
No. 45
notes:
T'ang Fu * S % ^ by Sung-yii ^ j .
thereupon favored her. When she rose to leave, she said, "I
back to the YUn-men koan which heads the poem. At the same
Kao T'ang Fu passage. T'ien T'ai and Nan-yiieh are two moun-
i n China).
Pivot Phrases"begin:
f o r him.
109
No. 46
Pleasure i n Pain
- t i >g
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110.
No. 46
notes:
koan No. 8 3 . See the notes to No. 45. The verse says:
face.
Kyounshu", No. 6 5 4 .
a Buddha.
112.
No. 47
Pain i n Pleasure
s i x years.
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113.
No. 47
notes:
experiencing enlightenment.
"to see".
when the Buddha simply raised a flower and Kasyapa, the only
No. 49
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116.
No. 49
notes:
No. 52
No. 52
notes:
Record.
i n d i f f e r e n t contexts.
122.
No. 54
"Take away subject, take away object", "The mystery within form."
f o l d World Sphere.
4-
123.
No. 54
notes:
follows:
only take them with you. Later, they may stay the tongues
of the w o r l d . " 37
man, take away object". The two phrases at any rate, stand
physical form, that i t seems so palpable and " r e a l " but can
I n f i n i t e sense.
No. 5 7
Th Plum Ripened
turned yellow.
It A f ft
No.' 57
notes:
Teng Lu:
"These days he also says, 'Not the mind, not the Buddha.'"
t o l d him what had happened. Ma-tsu said, "Ah, the plum has
45
ripened."
No. 66
The Great Master Yuan-wu Strikes a Harmony with the Cosmic Organ
magnum organum.
I f we compare him with him who heard bamboo struck or him who
No. 65
notes:
from the West? The oak tree i n the garden.'" Yiian-wu was
suddenly enlightened.
130.
he who heard bamboo struck: Hsiang-Yen, see the notes t o No. 49.
No. 68
notes:
Nos. 6 9 , 70, 71
134.
Nos. 6 9 , 7 0 , 71.
Three poems
The scriptures from the beginning have been paper f o r wiping bums.
The Dragon Palace Sea Treasury toys with words and phrases.
i t rains.
notes:
No. 69
tou's tomb:
p o e t s time.
1
No. 70
snake. Yiieh Kuang thought the snake i n the cup was the
No. 71
No. 77
Arhat Chrysanthemums
Breeze and dew on the East hedge, the heart of one who l e f t the
dust behind.
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139.
No. 77
notes:
remains a problem.
140.
No. 78
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142
No. 78
notes:
keeps h i s v i r t u e t o himself.
emperor HsUan-tsung .
T'ien-pao era: The era during the T'ang dynasty when Yang Kuei-
f e i flourished.
143
No. 79
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No. 79
notes:
No. 91
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146
No.' 91
notes:
(see Arntzen, p. 117, 118), and No. 92, "In the Mountains
there were a l l the sort who could forget there own comfort
wood and dipped water from the torrents. The mountain road
m r t i r i n g . 6 3
"Where are you going?" The monk said, "I'm going here
I have only the Zen o f one f l a v o r . " "And what i s the Zen of
from a l l material things. How can one desire both to eat and
No. 107
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150.
No. 10?
notes:
Daito:
of my teaching.
151.
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152.
Wind B e l l
two poems
No. 110
No. I l l
B e a t i f u l t h i s c l e a r sound, f a i n t l y i n the c o l d .
balustrade.
153
No. 110
notes:
^Ht( 38-713);
6
No. I l l
notes:
Half a Cloud
(name f o r a study)
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157.
No. 113
notes:
sion.
No. 4 5 .
158.
No. 115
commemorate i t .
comfortable f o r a body.
No. 115
1
notes:
No. 117
(name f o r a hermitage)
perfect;
What need have they of the Zen of carved chairs and meditation
floors?
World Sphere,
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161.
No. 117
notes:
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163.
No. 120
times.
No. 121
No. 120
notes:
i n the c a p i t o l .
No. 3 3 .
i n t e n t i o n i n a revolting way.""^
165.
No. 121
notes:
dung and would not even turn around to look at the imperial
l i k e s of y o u . " 78
Yoso's name.
166
No. 126
Praising P'u-hua
At h i s mad antics on the street and i n the market place, the masses
were alarmed.
equal him.
No. 126
notes:
record.
168.
No. 128
Those who keep the rules are asses, those who break the rules are
men.
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169.
No. 128
notes:
passion.
170.
two poems
No. 140
a shaved head;
No. 141
The monk who spoke of food would have got a Feast of Massed
Fragrances.
172.
No. 140,141.
notes:
three types. I laughed out loud and thought "So the words
82
of a former comrade were not mere f a b r i c a t i o n s I "
of Ta-hui.
to No. 91.
174.
No. 145
noisy,
You want to bar the s i x windows of the senses, but the eight
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175.
No. 145
notes:
The eight winds: e i t h e r things that agitate and delude the mind,
No. 153
jfskyamuni P r a c t i c i n g Ascetic D i s c i p l i n e
patriarchs.
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177.
No. 153
notes:
s'akyamuni as an a s c e t i c . ^
178.
No. 161
Divine Dragons.
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179
No. 161
notes:
on the upper reaches of the Yellow River where the carp were
(1275-1351)
means "rugged".
yueh Chi wherein comes the l i n e , "The ten thousand foot Dragon
an
Gate, chained i n black cloud."
180
No. 166
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No. 166
notes:
but could not give up wine and women. The legend probably
Vehicles." Such an i n t e r p r e t a t i o n i n v i t e d f i e r c e c r i t i c i s m
t u a l i t y untainted by over-serious r e l i g i o s i t y .
183
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No. 180
Po-chang Fasting
to the ground.
balls.
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185.
No. 180
notes:
d i f f i c u l t to get enlightenment.
the King of H e l l .
186
No. 184
Presented to a Congregation
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No. 184
notes:
universe,
No. 187
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189.
No. 187
A monk once asked Pa-ling: "Are the meaning of the Zen Patriarchs
the same?
No. 18?
notes:
Nirvana H a l l
chariots.
192.
No. 188
notes:
No. 203
the 29th of the 8th month, there was a great Typhoon and flood;
"Let i t be, l e t the bright moon sink behind the Western p a v i l i o n . "
A 4
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s
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fifl t <
194,
No. 203
notes:
d r i f t f a r away;
i s over.
No. 205
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No. 205
able to say i t but there are eighty year-old men who cannot p r a c t i c e
it."
and a l l the rest, so that i n the end they would ignore karma and
daily lives."
Do no e v i l , do much good.
No. 205
notes:
himself played with i n another poem about Bird Nest, No. 177
No. 206
sake ."
1
Thereupon I made a poem, laughing a t myself:
wine-soaked guts?
The lament of him who "embraced the sands" and cast himself i n t o
the r i v e r by Hsiang-nan
a m 11
ft
7A A
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ii
1>L
199.
No. 206
1
notes:
fisherman happened to see him and asked, "Are you not the
darkness?'
No. 209
remorseful."
well.
203.
No. 209
notes:
s e l f t o be caught up i n the v i c i s s i t u d e s of l i f e .
death.
sents i t , follows:
rats, one black and one white, were gnawing away at the
vine. 1
Just at that moment, a stinging bee l e t a l i t t l e
204,
anger and stupidity; the four snakes are the four great
No. 210
pieces of gold.
koan.
t
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it b,
it
A 4 t tip
206.
No. 210
notes:
symbol of uneom-
says:
realm of the Buddha but you are not yet able to penetrate
No. 216
Fisherman
Learning the Way, studying Zen, they run afoul of the Buddha's
o r i g i n a l mind.
Ch'u.
It
f
4?
A. If
it 4- 4-
A & Ay
209,
No. 216
notes:
No. 2 2 3
1! ft
ft
H
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f
211,
No. 223
notes:
actually k i l l e d a cat.
it Jus
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& 4 "J
1 it
ii
213,
No. 234
notes:
the sword that k i l l s , the sword that makes men l i v e : This phrase
108
appears i n the capping poem to Wu-men kuan case 11.
No. 240
iK
Ax
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in m
215..
No. 240
notes:
rageous of them a l l .
216,
No. 244
notes:
This poem i s the seventh i n the same series as No. 240. Here
No. 250
No. 251
No. 251
notes:
No. 254
tt *P # ft
5 "il ;l g
^ # *z $
223.
No. 254
notes:
l a s t l i n e i s ambiguous.
224.
No. 280.
men.
the f i e r y c a r t s .
225.
No. 280
notes:
Seven flowers torn eight ways: things torn seven or eight ways,
No. 291
Yesterday's c l a r i t y i s today's s t u p i d i t y .
One time, shade the eyes and gaze afar at the road of Heaven.
- t 7
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1L ii 4 X
if ^ 1 A
227
No. 291
notes:
No. 292
About a horse, one asks, "Do you have a good one or not?"
^ ~l ii
Vi il
iL
fi t
U i i jE. T
il A
229
No. 293
"A thousand mouths are none too many," so the r i c h family complains;
ft *
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M
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& 4 - is X
X 1 M &
23.0.
No. 293
notes:
that be a l l right?
fish store." 1 1 8
the a i r .
No. 306
Mutual Contradiction
Nirvana,
,-
A M
A %i
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ii ii
4 ik 0L
234.
No. 306
notes:
No. 308
The mind flows l i k e water through the four mindfulnesses never the
same.
The drinker toys with his cup, the poet hums a poem.
is 'A
Ml
4
k ft
til
A
A 7
236.
No. 308
notes:
No. 315
No. 332
f a r away.
at a l l ;
3>
8A
239*
No. 332
notes:
No. 77.
teachings.
understand t h i s ? " 1 2 2
No. 343
notes:
The stone lantern and the bare post: We have already met the bare
post once i n Yiin-men*s koan about the old Buddha and the bare
post. (See No. 45.) The stone lantern and the bare post are
good. They point to the East and point to the West, "nice
No. 334
When the primordial chaos was not y e t separated, the darkness was
p i t c h black.
notes:
two pieces of skin and one set of bones: See the notes to No. 44.
;244.
No. 352
Taking a Metaphor f o r R e a l i t y
No. 352
notes:
No. 376
frozen.
A fa
4-
t
247.
No. 376
notes:
No. 381
path.
No. 383
The S t i c k
% f ft #
No. 3 8 3
notes:
awakening.
251.
3?
Ax
A
m
ft.
252.
No. 384
notes:
Deluded Enlightenment
& ^ *F #
jt A & & jA
& 4 i% 48. 41
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it ^ ; X
V
254.
No. 385
notes:
tions. As i n poem No. 254, the rhyme words are a l l one word,
items not only twice but three times, again a highly unortho-
message.
255..
Nos. 3 8 8 , 3 8 9 , 390
^1
4
I 4
ii
t
41
256.
three poems
No. 388
No. 389
No. 390
No. 388
notes:
notes:
No. 394
U
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Iff
m it
It
n t
260..
No. 394
notes:
Hell
"Here, Master?"
n i & ^
t
262;
No. 441
notes:
"Hellow Master."
"Yes."
"Yes."
Nos. 4 9 3 , 495
^ _
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Hi
fi M M %
IB 4%
)& M
ii ill ^
Spreading Horse Dung to Cultivate the Mottled Bamboo
No. 493
No. 494
No. 493
notes:
dung f o r f e r t i l i z e r .
mutual longing without pause: one of the place names on the Hsiang
Shu.
134
"How can I l i v e a day without This Lord.
t h e i r "Lord".
267.
No. 494
notes:
of a swan?"*"^
mountains?"
three times.
the Nempu as w e l l .
h i s ease.
269.
No. 512
Praising Master L i n - c h i
-u, 4
Ik 4 S N
it
n ii
270.
No. 512
notes:
ii H f ^
B & $
^ m & u
y
%
\-\ n u & &
It iS f #.
272.
No. 544
notes:
- 139
Lady Mori: the paramour of Ikkyu*s l a t e r years.
Chuang Tzu,
No. 110.
273.
No. 545
platform.
A
it a.
t m
A. ii
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274
No. 545
!
notes:
No. 555
The Fisherman
fc ;1 k&
8 % He ft
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/AU /v /7v /vi^
Jff t l it it
276.
No. 555
notes:
with the Han. I l e f t out the name of the Yangtze f o r the sake
No/ 572
Po Luo-t'ion
growing old;
No.
;
572
notes:
No. 593
Sphere?
1
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ii
I
a
it \
4 0 X
A
No. 593
notes:
No. 604
rapids.'
No. 6 0 4
notes:
t h i s event:
and not l i v a b l e .
141
Ikkyu's 7 6 t h year, 1469.
No. 91. No. 3 8 4 , No.' 6 0 4 (the present poem), No. 6 0 5 and No.
! ;
poet i s manifestly c l e a r .
284.
No. 605
Would that i t were the realm of Gods and Immortals or some Heavenly
mansion.
On earth there are bands of evil-doers, the roads are not passable.
wind.
285.
No. 605
notes:
-fp 1
ft
fa
-JL -k
10 f t
fa
4- til
4$ ii
1 '
Sac
% i
1 ^
i
it ii
*
i it
^3 ft II 4.
287,
3 poems
No. 639
No. 640
No. 641
of karma.
:
288.
No. 639
notes:
The second year of Kanshio: The years preceding the Onin War were
ced that the order i s not always adhered to, as here poems
related to the period before the war follow poem ,604, which
No. 640
notes:
the burning house of the T r i p l e Sphere: See the notes to No. 54.
No. 647
might be c a l l e d "mindless 11
clerics. Therefore I composed a poem
to a t t a i n .
v /
f $
f t A >f ^
-t Al
'l s /I
ii 1} it A
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it
.290,
No. 647
notes:
pun on "path".
flames of war.
A l l the v i l l a g e elders
with the dates that occur i n the prefaces t o Ikkyu's own poems.
The Nempu entry, f o r example, says that the warning poem was
written ten years before the Onin War, but the preface t o
No. 690
Sea Cloud
A l i t t l e piece of cloud athwart the sky would wipe out empty space.
293.
No. 690
notes:
No. ?15
4L & to &
g? t & K B
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$ x f
& * # & g
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if
ft
Jb
^f1 4 4 1
295.
No. 715
i n spring.
296.
No. 715
notes:
body.
distinguished amusement.
How may times has spring come round, how many times autumn?
298.
No. 771
notes:
Gokomatsu.
29.9
name. I n old times and recently, there have been three named
High" and Mumu "No Dream". I recently took the name "Dream Chamber"
No. 819
No. 820
Once one i s drunk, the cup of wine i s heavy before the cask.
1 2L
ix
at i
it it
A ii
hi a4
304.
No. 821
feast.
No. 822
notes:
Zen p r e l a t e .
TSfukuji it # * 5f- ^
(d. 1 3 6 8 ) , also of
Tofukuji.
306,
No. 819
notes:
blossoms scattered over her face while she was sleeping, and
cosmetics.
No. 820
notes:
No. 822
notes:
Moonlit night
No. 839
a 4 r ^ 4 fc
i -
4 3 X . ^
No. 839
copying the poem and had not yet f i n i s h e d f i l l i n g the paper when
words. Aah, choosing among the treasures and wealth o f the world,
Hua Ting.
310.
No. 839
notes:
wool coat.
ink was just one more pounding of the mortar that purges
desire.
311.
Abbreviations
1972.
^^^M . 1936.
T;'
1
Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo ^ ^ ^ f T o k
y :
ZGR Zoku Gunsho Rui j u jfljl i f f ^ ^jf /.. Tokyo: Zoku Gunsho
Footnotes
Preface:
Introductory Essay:
7. Stanley F i s h , S e l f-Consuming A r t i f a c t s , p. 1 .
11. Ibid.
13. P i Yen Lu, koan 84, T. 48, p. 209 b-c. Thomas and J.C.
14. Ibid. 1
Cleary, p. 542.
17. CZS, No. 130. Arntzen, p. 97. Kaso was Ikkyu*s master.
19. I b i d . , ; 74
P
30. I b i d . , No. 2 5 0 .
31. u Teng Hui Yuan, r o l l 3. ZZ, v. I 3 8 , p. 474, ab.
314.
34. ' For more information about Gozan Bungaku see the recent p u b l i c a -
t i o n Poems of the Five Mountains, by Marian Ury.
Translations:
3. CZS, p. 283.'
4. I b i d . , p. 284.
8. KZ, p. !
11.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
20. I b i d . , p. 208-209 c.
21. K'uel T'ien Lu, Ou-yang Wen Chung Chi, SP, r o l l , 127, p. 12.
41. KZ p. 5 2 .
46. Ibid.
48. I b i d . , r o l l 4 , ZZ, v. I 3 8 , p. 7 1 7 b.
49. !
Mochizuki Shinko, Bukkyo Daijiten, v. 1 , p. 6 2 9 .
56. I b i d , , p. 2 0 9 a.
62. KZ p. 85.
Arntzen, p. 9 7 .
78. CZS, p. 4 2 9 .
90. Ibid.
112. KZ, p. 5.
p. 1-2.
Vasubandhu, v. 6 , pp. I 5 8 - I 6 2 .
123. I b i d . p. 497 a.
124. I b i d . , p. 500 b.
p. 1 .
SP r o l l 48, p. 2 .
146. L i n - c h i l u , T. 4 7 , p. 497 a.
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