was a Japanese poet and compiler of Imperial anthologies of poems. Tameie was the second son of poet Teika and married

Abutsu-ni Abutsu-ni (阿仏尼, c. 12221283; the ''-ni'' suffix means "nun") was a Japanese poet and nun. She served as a lady-in-waiting to Princess Kuni-Naishinnō, later known as Empress Ankamon-in. In approximately 1250 she married fellow poet Fujiwara n ...

. He was the central figure in a circle of Japanese poets after the

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in 1221. His three sons were

Nijō Tameuji Nijō Tameuji (二条為氏, 1222–1286), also known as Fujiwara no Tameuji (藤原為氏), was a Japanese courtier and ''waka'' poet of the mid-Kamakura period. His Dharma name was Kakua (覚阿). Biography Ancestry, birth and early life Nij ...

, Kyōgoku Tamenori and

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. They each established rival families of poets—the Nijō, the Kyōgoku and the Reizei.Nussbaum, Starting in 1250, Tameie was among those who held the ''

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'' office of . In 1256, he abandoned public life to become a Buddhist monk, taking the name Minbukyō-nyūdō.

Biography

The poet Fujiwara no Tameie was born in 1198. He was a member of the Nagaie lineage of the

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of the

Fujiwara clan was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend held, through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since the ancient times and dominated the imperial court until th ...

, the second son of Acting Middle Counsellor

Fujiwara no Teika , better-known as Fujiwara no Teika"Sadaie" and "Teika" are both possible readings of ; "...there is the further problem, the rendition of the name in romanized form. Teika probably referred to himself as Sadaie, and his father probably called ...

. His mother was a daughter of Great Minister of the Centre . Peerage was conferred on the young Tameie at the age of five, by Japanese reckoning, in Kennin 2 (1202). The same year, he accompanied his father on a visit to

Emperor Go-Toba was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1183 through 1198. This 12th-century sovereign was named after Emperor Toba, and ''go-'' (後), translates literally as "later"; an ...

and the

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(the later

Emperor Juntoku (October 22, 1197 – October 7, 1242) was the 84th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1210 through 1221. Genealogy Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal ...

). He died on the first day of the fifth month of Kenji 1, or 27 May 1275 in the

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. He was 78 years old by Japanese reckoning.

Names

Tameie's was Mimyō (三名). His

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was Naka-no-in (中院), and upon entering religious orders he took the

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Yūgaku (融覚).

Selected work

Tameie's published writings encompass 23 works in 28 publications in 1 language and 124 library holdings. WorldCat Identities

藤原為家 1198-1275
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References

Citations

Works cited

* * Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan Encyclopedia.''
Cambridge:

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.
OCLC 48943301
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