, also read as Tonna;
lay name
A legal name is the name that identifies a person for legal, administrative and other official purposes. A person's legal birth name generally is the name of the person that was given for the purpose of registration of the birth and which then a ...
– Nikaidō Sadamune (二階堂貞宗), was a Japanese
Buddhist poet who was a student of
Nijō Tameyo. Ton'a took a tonsure at
Enryaku-ji Temple, but was later associated with the ''Ji'' sect (founded by
Ippen
was a Japanese Buddhist itinerant preacher (''hijiri'') who founded the branch of Pure Land Buddhism.
Life
Ippen was born at Hōgon-ji, a temple in Iyo Province (modern Ehime Prefecture) on the island of Shikoku. He was originally named . He ...
). He looked up to
Saigyō
was a famous Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period.
Biography
Born in Kyoto to a noble family, he lived during the traumatic transition of power between the old court nobles and the new samurai warriors. After the start of ...
's poetic genius.
Poetry
The following are two of his best-known poems:
Notes
Japanese writers of the Muromachi period
14th-century Japanese poets
Kamakura period Buddhist clergy
Buddhist poets
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