was a Japanese
Buddhist monk and ''
waka
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** Waka taua, a Māori w ...
'' poet of the
Nanbokuchō period. His
secular name
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(俗名) was Ōtomo Yoriyasu (大友頼資).
Poetry
Four of his ''waka'' were included in
imperial anthologies
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such as the ''
Shinshūi Wakashū
, occasionally abbreviated as ''Shinshūishū'', a title which recollects the ''Shūi Wakashū'', is the 19th imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. It was finished late in 1364 CE, a year after Emperor Go-Kōgon first ordered it in 1363 at ...
'' and the ''
Shingoshūi Wakashū
, abbreviated as ''Shingoshūishū'', a title which recollects the ''Goshūi Wakashū'' and the '' Shinshūi Wakashū'', is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. It was finished somewhere around 1383 CE (and revised in 1384), eight year ...
''.
Other writings
He wrote the travel diary ''Miyako no Tsuto'' (都のつと).
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Date of birth unknown
Japanese Buddhist clergy
Waka poets
Samurai
14th-century Japanese poets