Fujiwara no Mototoshi

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Fujiwara no Mototoshi ( Japanese 藤原 基 俊 ; * 1060 ; † February 13, 1142 ) was a Japanese Waka poet.

Life

He was the son of the Chancellor on the right ( Udaijin ) Fujiwara no Toshiie and a daughter of Takashina no Nobutari. The great-grandson of Fujiwara no Michinaga is next to Minamoto no Toshiyori as the most important waka poet of the Insi period of the Heian period . He was a strict and feared judge at poetry competitions at the imperial court and, as a representative of a strictly traditional style, was in competition with the innovative Minamoto no Toshiyori. Towards the end of his life he became a Buddhist monk in 1138.

More than a hundred of his poems were included in the imperial Kin'yō-wakashū collection , with more to be found in later collections. His pupil was the poet Fujiwara no Toshinari .

At the court he held the lower following 5th court rank , as well as the post of vice-commander of the gate guard on the left ( saemon no suke ). In 1138 he became a monk under the name Kakushun ( 覚 舜 ).

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).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 加藤 睦 : 藤原 基 俊 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, accessed November 19, 2011 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ a b c d Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 206 (English, limited preview in Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
  3. ^ A b Joshua S. Mostow: Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image . University of Hawaii Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8248-1705-2 , pp. 363 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Thomas McAuley: Fujiwara no Mototoshi. In: 2001 Waka for Japan 2001. Retrieved November 19, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Fujiwara no Mototoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 藤原 基 俊 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1060
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1142