Fujiwara no Akiuji (藤原顕氏 1207 – 8 November 1274) was a Japanese nobleman and ''

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'' poet of the

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Life

Fujiwara no Akiuji was born in 1207. A member of the Northern Branch (''Hokke'') of the

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, he was the second son of and the younger brother of

Fujiwara no Tomoie Fujiwara no Tomoie (藤原知家 1182 - 1258) was a ''waka'' poet and Japanese nobleman active in the Heian period and early Kamakura period The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially est ...

. He reached the Junior Second Rank at court, and founded the Kamiyagawa lineage (紙屋河家 ''Kamiyagawa-ke'') within the Rokujō branch of the Fujiwara clan. He is occasionally mentioned in the ''

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'' as a court envoy to Kantō (関東祗候). He died on the eighth day of the eleventh month of Bun'ei 11 in 1274.

Poetry

Akiuji was a central figure in the

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'' poetic circle, and in

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helped establish the anti- faction, along with his brother Tomoie and

Fujiwara no Mitsutoshi Hamuro Mitsutoshi (葉室光俊, ''Hamuro no Mitsutoshi'', 1203 - 1276) was a major ''waka'' poet and Japanese nobleman active in the early Kamakura period The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, ...

. His poetry was a regular fixture in the ''

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'' contests and other poetic gatherings organized by the members of this faction, but it was not highly appreciated. His poems were included in the records of a large number of ''uta-awase'', including the '' Kasuga Wakamiya-sha Uta-awase'' (春日若宮社歌合) and the '' Munetaka-shinnō-ke Hyakugojū-ban Uta-awase'' (宗尊親王家百五十番歌合), as well as in the '' Hōji On-hyakushu'' (宝治御百首). His poems were also included in private anthologies that collected the works of Kamakura poets, including the '' Tōsen Waka Rokujō'' (東撰和歌六帖), the '' Genzon Waka Rokujō'' (現存和歌六帖) and the '' Un'yō Wakashū''. Eleven of his poems were included in

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from the '' Shoku Gosenshū'' on. He left a personal collection, the '' Akiuji-shū'',

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