Nijō Tamefuji (二条為藤, 1275–1324), also known as Fujiwara no Tamefuji (藤原為藤), was a Japanese courtier and ''

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'' poet of the late

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Biography

Nijō Tamefuji was born in 1275. He was the second son of Nijō Tameyo, and his mother was a daughter of Kamo Ujihisa (賀茂氏久), Tameyo himself being a son of

Nijō Tameuji Nijō Tameuji (二条為氏, 1222–1286), also known as Fujiwara no Tameuji (藤原為氏), was a Japanese courtier and '' waka'' poet of the mid-Kamakura period. His Dharma name was Kakua (覚阿). Biography Ancestry, birth and early life Ni ...

, a grandson of

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, and a great-grandson of

Fujiwara no Teika was a Japanese anthologist, calligrapher, literary critic,"The high quality of poetic theory (''karon'') in this age depends chiefly upon the poetic writings of Fujiwara Shunzei and his son Teika. The other theorists of ''tanka'' writing, st ...

. He was a member of the Nijō branch of the

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, so is known as both Nijō Tamefuji and Fujiwara no Tamefuji. He was initially raised by his uncle Nijō Tameo (二条為雄), but following the death of his brother Tamemichi in the fifth month he returned to his father's household. On the eleventh day of the sixth month of 1302 he participated in an ''

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'', and the following year took part in the ''Go-Nijō-in uta-awase''. He was also included in the '' Kagen sentō on-hyaku-shu'' (嘉元仙洞御百首) and the '' Bunpō on-hyaku-shu'' (文保御百首). In 1317 he was awarded the position of Acting Middle Counselor (''gon-

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''). When

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, with whom he had worked closely, succeeded to the

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, his position in poetic circles continued to grow in importance. On the second day of the seventh month of Genkō 3 (1323), he was selected as the compiler of the ''

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''. Five days later, he took part in the '' Kameyama-dono shichihyaku-shu'' (亀山殿七百首), to which he contributed 68 poems (third after Retired Emperor Go-Uda and his father Tameyo). In the second month of the following year, he wrote the '' Iwashimizu-sha uta-awase'' (石清水社歌合). Soon thereafter he abandoned work on the ''Shokugoshūi Wakashū'' with it still incomplete. 116 of his poems are included in

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from the ''

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'' on. Several of his poems are also known from private collections (私撰集 '' shisenshū''), such as the '' Shoku Gen'yō Wakashū'' (続現葉和歌集) and the ''

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'' (藤葉和歌集). He died on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of Genkō 4 (1324).

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