, also known as the , was a Japanese poet and courtier. The poet

Fujiwara no Kanesuke , also known as the , was a middle Heian-period ''waka'' poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. His great-granddaughter was Murasaki Shikibu, author of the well-known monogatari the ''Tale of ...

was his cousin and son-in-law and his son Asatada was also a poet. He was appointed as Udajin of the Third Ward and we see him in storied from the

Tales of Yamato is a collection of 173 short stories which give details about life in the imperial court in the 9th and 10th centuries. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Yamato monogatari''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 1047. It is an ''uta monogatari'' (a w ...

. 19 poems can be found in the

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, and he also had a private collection of poems. His father was Fujiwara no Takafuji.

Poetry

One of his poems is included in ''

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 ...

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References

External links

Biography and e-text of his poems
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