Minamoto no Michitomo

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Minamoto no Michitomo ( Japanese 源 通 具 ; * 1171 ; † October 13, 1227 ) was a Japanese Waka poet and politician.

Minamoto no Michitomo was the second son of Naidaijin Minamoto no Michichika and the daughter of Taira no Norimori . Around 1190 he married the poet Fujiwara no Toshinari no Musume , the granddaughter and adopted daughter Fujiwara no Toshinaris . In 1201 he was advisor ( sangi ) and later Dainagon , as well as raised to the real second court rank.

He was one of the compilers of the imperial waka anthology Shinkokin-wakashū , which was compiled in 1205.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 源 通 具 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, 2009, accessed December 29, 2011 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Chieko Irie Mulhern: Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0-313-25486-9 , pp. 70 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp.  211 (English, limited preview in Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
personal data
SURNAME Minamoto no Michitomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 源 通 具 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1171
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1227