Fujiwara no Kanesuke
Fujiwara no Kanesuke by Kanō Naonobu , 1648
Fujiwara no Kanesuke ( Japanese 藤原 兼 輔 ; also: 中 納 言 兼 輔 , Chūnagon Kanesuke or 堤 中 納 言 Tsutsumi Chūnagon ; * 877 ; † March 21, 933 ) was a Japanese Waka poet and aristocrat of the Heian period . He is one of the thirty-six immortals in poetry .
One of his poems was included in the well-known Waka anthology Hyakunin Isshu . His poems were selected for the imperial poetry anthologies Kokin-wakashū and Gosen-wakashū .
His father was Fujiwara no Toshimoto , his mother came from the Ōtomo clan. Kanesuke was married to the daughter of Fujiwara no Sadakata . With her he had five sons.
Explanation
- ↑ where Chūnagon denotes the court rank.
- ↑ Chūnagon here denotes the court rank of Vice-Minister according to the Ritsuryō system. Tsutsumi literally means dam. The name component is owed to the fact that Fujiwara no Kanesuke's mansion stood at that very spot on Kudo-gawa in Kyoto.
Web links
- Online text edition of the poems (Japanese)
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| SURNAME | Fujiwara no Kanesuke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 藤原 兼 輔 (Japanese); 中 納 言 兼 輔 (Japanese, alternative name); 堤 中 納 言 (Japanese, alternative name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese waka poet and aristocrat of the Heian period |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 877 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 933 |