白居易Bai Juyi
Life
Bai Juyi (also romanized Po Chü-i; courtesy name Letian) wrote in a famously plain style — legend says he read drafts to an old woman and revised anything she could not understand. An outspoken official, he was exiled to Jiangzhou and later governed Hangzhou and Suzhou. His poems were hugely popular in Heian Japan.
Poems on this site
- A New Mountain Cottage Below Incense Burner Peak, Written on the East Wall香炉峰下新卜山居草堂初成偶题东壁｜seven-character regulated verse
- Song of Everlasting Sorrow长恨歌｜seven-character ancient-style ballad
- Grass on the Ancient Plain: A Farewell赋得古原草送别｜five-character regulated verse
- A Question for Liu the Nineteenth问刘十九｜five-character quatrain
- On the Night of the Fifteenth of the Eighth Month, on Duty in the Palace, Thinking of Yuan Zhen八月十五日夜禁中独直对月忆元九｜seven-character regulated verse