Jien

Jien (in Japanese 慈円; May 17th 1155 with Kyoto - October 28th 1225 with Omi, now Shiga) was a Poète, Historien and Bhikṣu Japanese.

Jien is the son of Fujiwara No Tadamichi, member of powerful and aristocratic family Fujiwara. Very young person, it joined a Buddhist monastery of the sect Tendai and first of all takes the Buddhist name of Dokaie which it will change later into Jien .

It starts by studying and writing the Histoire of Japan, its matter being “to light those which pain to include/understand the vicissitudes of the life”. Its masterpiece is completed about 1220 and humbly entitled Gukanshō that one to little translate by the large step thing of one almost nothing . In this work, it tries to analyze the facts and events of the Japanese history.

It is the 95e poet of the famous collection of Oguro Hyakunin-isshu (小倉百人一首) or it carries the honorary title of Zen-daisōjō (前大僧正慈円), i.e., “the first of the large priests (Buddhist)”.

Works

Jien; Masao Okami; Toshihide Akamatsu, Gukanshō , Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, Shōwa 42 1967.
Jien; Howard S Levy; Jirō Okazaki, The priest Jien (1155-1225), 1200 poems , Yokohama, Japan: Warm-software Village Branch, Poetry Division, Kay-Ell Publications, 1983.
Jien; Keiji Nagahara; Chikafusa Kitabatake, Jien, Kitabatake Chikafusa , Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, Shōwa 58 1983.

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