Chinese & Japanese
Ts’en Ts’an
Ts’en Ts’an (c. AD 750) was an intimate friend of Tu Fu and, Cranmer-Byng tells us, a censor under the Emperor Su Tsung who rose to be governor of Chia-chou. Most of his surviving verse takes the form of quatrains.
The poems here are L. Cranmer-Byng’s version in A Lute of Jade (1909), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.
Poems (10)
- A Dream of Spring
- Buddhism
- Farewell to a Comrade
- On Meeting a Messenger to the Capital
- A Message to Censor Tu Fu at His Office in the Left Court
- An Early Audience at the Palace of Light
- Ascending the Pagoda at the Temple of Kind Favour
- A Song of Running-Horse River
- A Song of Wheel Tower
- A Song of White Snow