Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (凡河内躬恒) was an early Heian administrator and ''

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'' poet of the Japanese court (

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– 925), and a member of the

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 Kash ...

. He was sent as the governor of Kai, Izumi and Awaji provinces, and on his return to

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was asked to participate in the compilation 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 abo ...

''. He was a master of poetic matches and his poems to accompany pictures on folding screens were widely admired for their quality. His influence at the time was commensurate with

Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese author, poet and court noble of the Heian period. He is best known as the principal compiler of the ''Kokin Wakashū'', also writing its Japanese Preface, and as a possible author of the '' Tosa Diary'', although this was publish ...

, and he has an unusually large number of poems (193) included in the official poetry collections. He is known to many Japanese today as one of his poems was included in the famous anthology

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 ...

References

*Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: ''The Princeton companion to classical Japanese literature''. Princeton University Press, 2. Printing 1988, , p. 215
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