Akazome Emon

Fictional representation of the Akazome Emon, color woodcut by Kikugawa Eizan , 1811

Akazome Emon ( Japanese 赤 染 衛 門 ; * around 956; † 1041 ) was a Japanese poet.

Life

Akazome was the daughter of Akazome no Tokimochi , from whose post as palace guard ( emon ) her emergency name is derived. She was the maid of honor of Rinshi , the wife of the ruler Fujiwara no Michinaga and of their daughter Shōshi . Her husband was the poet Ōe no Masahira .

Traditionally, the - at least partially - authorship of the first Japanese historical story Eiga Monogatari is ascribed to her. This "narrative of splendor and glory" spans a period of 200 years, beginning with the reign of Emperor Uda and ending with the imperial period of Horikawa , and focuses on the deeds of Fujiwara no Michinaga. Akazome also wrote a travel diary under the title Owari kikō .

600 of her Waka poems were published in the Akazome emon shū collection . Other poems were included in official collections such as Shūi wakashū . Akazome is one of the thirty-six immortals of poetry of the Middle Ages ( Chūko Sanjūrokkasen ) and one of the thirty-six female immortals of poetry ( Nyōbō Sanjūrokkasen ).

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• Eiga monogatari ( 栄 花 物語 )
  • engl. “A tale of flowering fortunes; annals of Japanese aristocratic life in the Heian period ”, translated by William H. McCullough, Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, 1980

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Commons : Akazome Emon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Joshua S. Mostow: Pictures of the heart: the Hyakunin isshu in word and image , University of Hawaii Press, 1996, ISBN 9780824817053 , p. 316 f
• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 18 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Bruno Lewin : Japanese Chrestomathie: from the Nara period to the Edo period , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1965, p. 120 f
• Chieko Irie Mulhern: Heroic with grace: legendary women of Japan , ME Sharpe, 1991, ISBN 9780873325523 , p. 92