Ssŭ-k’ung T’u

Ssŭ-k’ung T’u (837–908) was Secretary to the Board of Rites and retired from that post to lead a contemplative life. L. Cranmer-Byng calls him perhaps the most Chinese of the poets he translated and one of the most philosophical.

The poems here are L. Cranmer-Byng’s versions in A Lute of Jade (1909), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.