Fujiwara no Toshinari
Fujiwara no Toshinari ( Japanese 藤原 俊 成 , or in respectful reading Fujiwara no Shunzei ; * 1114 ; † December 22, 1204 ) was a Japanese Waka poet.
Life
The son of the poet and politician Fujiwara no Toshitada was a student of both the conservative waka poet Fujiwara no Mototoshi and his innovative competitor Minamoto no Toshiyori (Minamoto no Shunrai). As a member of the Mikohidari branch of the Fujiwara family , he held lower offices at the court of the Tenno and reached the post of provincial governor in the mid-thirties.
Toshinari made a name for himself both as a poet and as a literary critic. A collection of 750 of his own poems was published under the title Chōshū eisō ( 長 秋 詠 藻 ), another 430 were included in various imperial collections. He himself created the waka collection Senzai-wakashū in 1188 , in which he also included works by contemporary poets such as Sagyō , Fujiwara no Sadaie and Shikishi Naishinnō .
Toshinari presented his poetic concept in the book Korai fūtei shō ( 古来 風 体 抄 , 1197/1201). He was a sought-after referee for poetry competitions at court, where he used to praise the good rather than the bad. In old age he was considered the doyen of a whole generation of young poets and enjoyed unusual attention from the court for his low rank.
Since 1176 Toshinari lived as a Buddhist monk under the name Shakua ( 釈 阿 ). In addition to his son Fujiwara no Sadaie, his stepson Jakuren (Fujiwara no Sadanaga) and his adopted granddaughter Fujiwara Toshinari no Musume became known as poets.
literature
- Steven D. Carter: Traditional Japanese Poetry. An Anthology . Stanford University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8047-2212-9 , pp. 148–156 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Japanese yūsokuyomi ( 有 職 読 み ). The Japanese name reading was replaced by a Sino-Japanese on reading .
- ^ A b Steven D. Carter: Traditional Japanese Poetry. An Anthology . Stanford University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8047-2212-9 , pp. 148 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b c Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 210–211 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
- ↑ Thomas McAuley: Fujiwara no Shunzei. In: 2001 Waka for Japan 2001. Retrieved November 19, 2011 .
- ^ Helen Craig McCullough: Aristocratic culture . In: Donald H. Shively, William H. McCullough (Eds.): The Cambridge History of Japan . Vol. 2: Heian Japan, ISBN 0-521-22353-9 , pp. 439–440 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
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SURNAME | Fujiwara no Toshinari |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 藤原 俊 成 (Japanese); Fujiwara no Shunzei (on reading) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1114 |
DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 1204 |