Minamoto no Tsunenobu

Illustration of the Dainagon Tsunenobu in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

Minamoto no Tsunenobu ( Japanese 源経信 ; * 1016 ; † February 20, 1097 ) was a high-ranking official ( kugyō ) at the imperial court, Kanshi and Waka poets, and musicians.

Life

Minamoto no Tsunenobu was the son of Gon-Chūnagon Minamoto no Michikata and a daughter of the governor of Harima Minamoto no Kunimori. In 1065 he became the imperial chief secretary ( 蔵人頭 , kurōdo no tō ) and in 1091 Dainagon . In 1094 he received the post of extraordinary military governor of Dazaifu ( 大宰権帥 , dazai no gon no sochi ). As a result, he was also referred to as Gen Totoku ( 源都督 ), where Gen is the Sino-Japanese reading of his family name Minamoto and totoku (Chin. Dūdū ) is a Chinese official title for a military province governor , based on his post as dazai no gon no sochi .

One of his sons was the poet Minamoto no Toshiyori .

poetry

His first poems appeared in the collection Yūshi Naishinnō-ke Meisho Uta-awase . As a poet, he was a competitor of Fujiwara no Michitoshi , to whose imperial collection of poems Goshūi-wakashū he created a counter-collection.

His own collection of poems has been preserved, and 86 of his poems have been included in the Goshūi-Wakashū collection and other imperial collections such as Kin'yō-wakashū . In Katsura near Kyoto, Tsunenobu founded a school for the Biwa game. He is therefore also called Katsura Dainagon ( 桂大納言 ) after his place of residence .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c 朧谷寿 : 源経信 . In: 朝日日本歴史人物事典 at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, accessed January 6, 2011 (Japanese).
↑ 源都督 . In: デジタル大辞泉 at kotobank.jp. Shogakukan, accessed January 16, 2011 (Japanese).
^ ^A ^b ^c 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. 351–353 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Ewa Machotka: Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity: Hokusai's Hyakunin Isshu . PIE Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 978-90-5201-482-1 , pp. 113–115 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Haruo Shirane (Ed.): Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 . Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-13697-6 , pp. 632 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Minamoto no Tsunenobu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	源経信 (Japanese); Gene totoku; 源都督 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese statesman, poet and musician
DATE OF BIRTH	1016
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 1097

[kotobank-1] 朧谷寿 : 源経信 . In: 朝日日本歴史人物事典 at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, accessed January 6, 2011 (Japanese).

[2] 源都督 . In: デジタル大辞泉 at kotobank.jp. Shogakukan, accessed January 16, 2011 (Japanese).

[Mostow-3] A ^b ^c 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. 351–353 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[4] Ewa Machotka: Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity: Hokusai's Hyakunin Isshu . PIE Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 978-90-5201-482-1 , pp. 113–115 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[5] Haruo Shirane (Ed.): Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 . Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-13697-6 , pp. 632 ( limited preview in Google Book search).