, also known as , was a Japanese ''

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'' poet of the late-

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. One of his poems was included in the ''

Ogura 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 ...

''. He produced a private collection, the ''Rin'yō Wakashū'', and was listed as one of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.

Name

His Buddhist name is also read ''Sun'e'',''Britannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten'' article "Shun'e". 2007. Britannica Japan Co. and he is also known by the name ''Tayū no Kimi''.''Digital Daijisen'' entry "Shun'e". Shogakukan.

Biography

He was born in 1113, the son of

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.McMillan 2010 : 147 (note 85). His maternal grandfather was

Fujiwara no Atsutaka Fujiwara no Atsutaka (藤原敦隆; 1060s–1120) was a Japanese nobleman and ''waka (poetry), waka'' poet of the Heian period. His real name may have been Tachibana no Atsutaka. Life Fujiwara no Atsutaka was a son of the Hizen-no-kami, governo ...

. He was tutored in ''waka'' composition by his father, but after the latter died he appears to have taken monastic orders in

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. His exact date of death is uncertain, but it was likely around 1191.

Poetry

Eighty-three of his poems were included in

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, and he was recognized as one of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry. He was a poetic mentor to

Kamo no Chōmei was a Japanese author, poet (in the waka form), and essayist. He witnessed a series of natural and social disasters, and, having lost his political backing, was passed over for promotion within the Shinto shrine associated with his family. He ...

. The following poem by him was included as No. 85 in

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 ...

's ''

'': He also left a

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, the .

References

Citations

Works cited

* *McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). ''One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each''. New York: Columbia University Press. * *Suzuki Hideo, Yamaguchi Shin'ichi, Yoda Yasushi. 2009 (1st ed. 1997). ''Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu''. Tokyo: Bun'eidō.

External links

List of Shun'e's poems
in the

International Research Center for Japanese Studies The , or Nichibunken (日文研), is an inter-university research institute in Kyoto. Along with the National Institute of Japanese Literature, the National Museum of Japanese History, and the National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), National Museum ...

's online ''waka'' database.
''Rin'yō-shū''
in the same database.
Shun'e
on Kotobank. {{DEFAULTSORT:Shun'e 12th-century Japanese poets 1113 births People of the Heian period Japanese Buddhist clergy Articles containing Japanese poems Hyakunin Isshu poets Year of death missing Buddhist clergy of the Heian period