was a Japanese samurai and '' waka'' poet of the early

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"Utsunomiya Yoritsuna"
Shogakukan.

Family

His father was . He married a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa. After entering Buddhist orders, he took the

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, and was also known as .

Poetry

He was a close friend of Fujiwara no Teika and his daughter married Teika's son Tameie.Keene 1999 : 738 (note 28).McMillan 2010 : xxv. He is also said to have commissioned Teika's compilation of the '' Ogura Hyakunin Isshu''. Shinshu University Faculty of Art
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December 2009. The collection was originally prepared (in a slightly different form to the present ''Ogura Hyakunin Isshu'') to in Yoritsuna's Mt. Ogura residence in the

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district of Kyoto.Suzuki et al. 2009 : 2. He was the head of one of the chief poetic houses of the Kamakura period.

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