Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (921–991, 大中臣能宣, also Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason 大中臣能宣朝臣) was a middle

Heian period The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese. ...

'' waka poet'' and Japanese

nobleman Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy. It is normally ranked immediately below royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. The characteristi ...

. His granddaughter was the famous later Heian poet Ise no Taiu. He is designated as a member of the

Thirty-six Poetry Immortals The are a group of Japanese poets of the Asuka, Nara, and Heian periods selected by Fujiwara no Kintō as exemplars of Japanese poetic ability. The oldest surviving collection of the 36 poets' works is ''Nishi Honganji Sanju-rokunin Kashu'' ...

, and one of his poems is included in the ''

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese ''waka'' by one hundred poets. ''Hyakunin isshu'' can be translated to "one hundred people, one poem ach; it can also refer to the card game of ''uta-garuta'', which uses a deck compos ...

'', but one theory holds that his entry in this anthology was not actually written by him. As one of the

Five Men of the Pear Chamber {{Unreferenced, date=August 2020 The Five Men of the Pear Chamber (梨壺の五人 ''Nashitsubo no gonin'') are a group of Heian period Japanese poets and scholars who cooperated in the compilation of the Gosen Wakashū. They also compiled '' kundok ...

(梨壺の五人), Yoshinobu assisted in the compilation of the

Gosen Wakashū The , often abbreviated as ''Gosenshū'' ("Later Collection"), is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka compiled in 951 at the behest of Emperor Murakami by the Five Men of the Pear Chamber: Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (922-991), Kiyohara no Motosuke ...

. He also compiled '' kundoku'' (訓読) readings for texts from the

Man'yōshū The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in ...

. Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu's poems are included in several official poetry anthologies, including the

Shūi Wakashū The , often abbreviated as ''Shūishū'', is the third imperial anthology of waka from Heian period Japan. It was compiled by Emperor Kazan in about 1005.Keene 1999 : 283 Its twenty volumes contain 1,351 poems. The details of its publication and ...

. A personal collection known as the ''Yoshinobushū'' (能宣集) also remains. His son

Ōnakatomi no Sukechika Ōnakatomi no Sukechika (大中臣輔親, 954 - July 6, 1038) was a Japanese Waka poet, Shinto priest and noble from the middle Heian period. He was the son of Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu. His poems are included in the Japanese imperial poetry anthology ...

was also an important Heian poet.

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E-text of his poems
in Japanese 921 births 991 deaths Place of birth unknown 10th-century Japanese poets Hyakunin Isshu poets {{japan-writer-stub