Minamoto no Sanetomo
Minamoto no Sanetomo ( Japanese 源 実 朝 ; * September 17, 1192 ; † February 13, 1219 ) was the third Shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate , Udaijin (from 1218 to 1219) and a Waka poet.
Life
The son of the founder of the Kamukara Shogunate, Minamoto no Yoritomo , and Hōjō Masakos became Shogun at the age of eleven as the successor to his murdered brother Minamoto no Yoriie . However, the actual power in the empire at this time was in the hands of his grandfather Hōjō Tokimasa .
Minamoto was murdered by his nephew Kugyō ( Minamoto no Yoshinari ), a son of his brother Minamoto no Yoriie.
poetry
Minamoto no Sanetomo was interested in poetry and became a student of the poet Fujiwara no Teika . His poems (around 700) were compiled by an unknown compiler in the Kinkai Wakashū ( 金槐 和 歌集 ) collection. One was also included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu collection .
Web links
- Dorothy Perkins: The samurai of Japan: a chronology from their origin in the Heian era (794-1185) to the modern era , DIANE Publishing, 1998, ISBN 978-0-78814-525-4 , p. 29
- Shūichi Katō , Don Sanderson (transl.): A history of Japanese literature: from the Man'yōshū to modern times , 2nd edition, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 978-1-87341-048-6 , pp. 95-97
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minamoto no Sanetomo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 源 実 朝 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese shogun and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1192 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1219 |