) was a Japanese '' waka'' poet,

Shinto , also called Shintoism, is a religion originating in Japan. Classified as an East Asian religions, East Asian religion by Religious studies, scholars of religion, it is often regarded by its practitioners as Japan's indigenous religion and as ...

priest and noble from the middle

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 Kammu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means in Japanese. It is a ...

. He was the son of

Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu , also , was a middle Heian period Japanese nobleman and '' waka'' poet. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals,Mostow, Joshua S. (1996) Pictures of the heart : the Hyakunin isshu in word and image p. 287 https://arch ...

. His poems are included in the Japanese imperial poetry anthology ''

Shūi Wakashū The , often abbreviated as ''Shūishū'', is the third imperial anthology of waka from 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 empe ...

''. He also authored a personal collection entitled . One of his poems was also included in the ''Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu'' of 1943. His daughter was Ise no Taifu.https://archive.org/details/japanencyclopedi0000loui/page/753/mode/1up

External links

Ōnakatomi no Sukechika's poetry online
in Japanese

References

Japanese poets 954 births 1038 deaths 11th-century Shintoists {{Japan-poet-stub