Ōshikochi no Mitsune
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune , painting by Kanō Tan'yū , 1648
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune drawn by Kikuchi Yōsai
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune ( Jap. 凡河内躬恒 ; bl. 898 - 922 ) was a Japanese Waka - Poet .
Life
He was one of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry and one of the compilers of the Kokinshu .
He served as a provincial official and was last appointed extraordinary provincial secretary of Awaji in 921 .
Mitsune was a master of his craft and started writing early. His works are often about nature. His works are part of the Hyakunin Isshu anthology . 193 of his poems have come down to us in the Japanese anthologies.
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- Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature . 2nd Edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1988, ISBN 0-691-00825-6 , pp. 215 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ 凡 河内 躬 恒 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 ２ 版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved March 17, 2013 (Japanese).
Web links
- Copies of his works (Japanese)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ōshikochi no Mitsune |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 凡 河内 躬 恒 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese waka poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 9th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 10th century |