, also known was , was a Japanese poet and monk of the late

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. ...

. Along with

Izumi Shikibu was a mid-Heian period Japanese poet. She is a member of the . She was the contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, and Akazome Emon at the court of empress Joto Mon'in. She "is considered by many to have been the greatest woman poet of the Heian p ...

, Nōin is one of " Thirty-six Medieval Poetry Immortals" of

waka poetry is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Although ''waka'' in modern Japanese is written as , in the past it was also written as (see Wa, an old name for Japan), and a variant name is . Etymology The word ''waka'' has two diffe ...

selected by (1107–1165). Nōin authored of the ''Gengenshu'' and ''Nōin Utamakura''.

Poetry

One of his poems is anthologized 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 ...

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Bibliography

*Peter McMillan (2008) ''One hundred poets, one poem each : a translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu''. New York : Columbia University Press.

Notes

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