Fujiwara no Kintō, in the Hyakunin Isshu. is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology

Fujiwara no Kintō by Kikuchi Yosai

Fujiwara no Kintō (藤原公任) (966-1041), also known as Shijō-dainagon, was a poet admired by his contemporaries ^[1] and a court bureaucrat of the Heian period. Kikuchi Yōsai (菊池容斎 1781-1878 also known as Kikuchi Takeyasu and Kawahara Ryōhei was a Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome 966 was a year in the 10th century. Events By Place Europe April 14 or April 30 — Mieszko The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. His father was the regent Fujiwara no Yoritada and his son Fujiwara no Sadayori^[2]. Fujiwara no Yoritada (藤原 頼忠 924 - 989 the second son of Saneyori, was a Kugyo (high-ranked Japanese noble who served as Regent for An exemplary calligrapher and poet, he is given mention in works by Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shōnagon and a number of other major chronicles and texts. Murasaki Shikibu ( 紫[[wikt 式|式]] 部; c 973&ndashc 1014 or 1025 or Lady Murasaki as she is sometimes known in English was a Japanese Sei Shōnagon (清少納言 ( c966 -1017 was a Japanese author and a Court lady who served the Empress Teishi /Empress Sadako around the year

Over the course of his life, Kintō published a great many poems, as well as many poetry anthologies including the Shūi Wakashū. often abbreviated as Shūishū, is an Imperial anthology of Japanese waka compiled between 1005 and 1007. He also established the grouping of "Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses" or "Thirty-six Poetry Immortals", the "Anthology of Poems by the Thirty-Six Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), frequently seen in Ukiyo-e art; he first assembled in 1009-1011 which Fujiwara no Teika would later recommend to the study to aspiring poets. The Thirty-six Poetry Immortals (Japanese 三十六歌仙 Sanjūrokkasen) are a group of medieval Japanese poets selected by Fujiwara no Kintō as exemplars of Japanese "pictures of the floating world" is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or Woodcuts) and Paintings produced between the 17th Fujiwara no Teika (藤原定家 also known as Fujiwara no Sadaie or Sada-ie, (1162 &ndash September 26 1241 was a Japanese waka poet The anthology:

". . . contained ten poems each by Hitomaro, Tsurayuki, Mitsune, Ise, Kanemori, and Nakatsukasa, and three poems each by Yakamochi, Akahito, Narihira, Henjô, Sosei, Tomonori, Sarumaru, Komachi, Kanesuke, Asatada, Atsutada, Takamitsu, Kintada, Tadamine, Saigû no Nyôgo, Yorimoto, Toshiyuki, Shigeyuki, Muneyuki, Sane-akira, Kiyotada, Shitagô, Okikaze, Motosuke, Korenori, Motozane, Kodai no Kimi (also read O-ô no Kimi), Nakafumi, Yoshinobu, and Tadami. He served the Heian court in the position of nagon at the same time as Minamoto no Tsunenobu, Minamoto no Toshikata, and Fujiwara no Yukinari, all great poets as well. Fujiwara no Yukinari, or Fujiwara no Kozei 藤原行成 (972&ndash1027 CE) was a Japanese Calligrapher ( shodoka) during the The four have come to be known as the Shi-nagon (four nagon). " [1]

He was also apparently vital in the compilation of Emperor Kazan's Shūi Wakashū (in which 15 of his poems appear)^[3], having compiled between 996 and 999 the original skeleton for it, a collection called Shuisho. Emperor Kazan (花山天皇 Kazan-tennō) ( October 26, 968 – February 8, 1008) was the 65th emperor of Japan often abbreviated as Shūishū, is an Imperial anthology of Japanese waka compiled between 1005 and 1007. ^[4]

In addition, his poetry criticism is also of note: reputedly, when Kinto criticized Fujiwara no Nagayoshi (probably his Waka Kuhon, "Nine Grades of Waka" ^[5]), Nagayoshi became ill and died. Fujiwara no Nagayoshi (or Fujiwara no Nagatō (藤原長能 (949?-? was a Japanese poet and a court bureaucrat of the Heian period

Notes

1. ^ ". . . Fujiwara no Kinto (966-1008), the most admired poet of the day. " pg 283 of Donald Keene's Seeds in the Heart. Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 6 1922 in New York City) is a noted Japanologist, scholar teacher writer translator and interpreter of Seeds in the Heart Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century is the first book in Donald Keene 's four book series "A History of Japanese
2. ^ pg 602 of Seeds in the Heart.
3. ^ pg 284 of Seeds in the Heart.
4. ^ pg 283 of Seeds in the Heart.
5. ^ pg 331 of Seeds in the Heart.

References

• Frederic, Louis (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia. " Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Papinot, Edmond (1910). Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha.

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