Morimura Atsutaka Tsuba with Saigy Gazing at Mt Fuji Walters . Seated at the lower left of the tsuba is the thcentury monk Saigy Saigy was palace guard who became Buddhist monk at the age of twenty three when the Emperor Toba abdicated and became monk Saigy wandered the country until he died in Kyoto at the age of seventy three