Mibu no Tadamine (壬生忠岑) was an early Heian ''

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'' poet of the court (active 898–920), and a member of the ''sanjūrokkasen'' or

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'' ...

. His son

Mibu no Tadami Mibu no Tadami (dates unknown, 壬生忠見) was a middle Heian period ''waka'' poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. His father Mibu no Tadamine Mibu no Tadamine (壬生忠岑) was an ear ...

was also a distinguished poet. He emerged as an important poet in an early

utaawase , poetry contests or ''waka'' matches, are a distinctive feature of the Japanese literary landscape from the Heian period. Significant to the development of Japanese poetics, the origin of group composition such as ''renga'', and a stimulus to ...

or poetry match, ''Koresada no miko no ie no uta'awase'' (是貞の親王家歌合, "The Poetry Match at Prince Koresada's Residence", c.893), and was involved in many of the poetic activities of the day, including a position as a compiler of the ''

Kokin Wakashū The , commonly abbreviated as , is an early anthology of the ''waka'' form of Japanese poetry, dating from the Heian period. An imperial anthology, it was conceived by Emperor Uda () and published by order of his son Emperor Daigo () in about ...

''. A collection of his personal poems appeared as the ''tadamine shū'', though more than half of it is not certainly canon. He is also famous for the ''Tadamine Juttei'' (忠岑十体, "Ten Styles of Tadamine", c.945), an influential work of Heian criticism.

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