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Fujiwara No Akihira
Fujiwara no Akihira (藤原 明衡; 989? – November 14, 1066) was a Japanese nobleman and ''kanshi (poetry), kanshi'' poet of the Heian period. Life Fujiwara no Akihira was the second child of Fujiwara no Atsunobu. His mother was a daughter of 良峰英材, or possibly a daughter of . He was probably born around 989. He studied under his father from a young age, and in Kankō, Kankō 1 (1004 in the Gregorian calendar) enrolled in the . Among his children were and Fujiwara no Atsumitsu. According to the ''Chokusen Sakusha Burui'' (勅撰作者部類), he died on the Japanese calendar, 18th day of the tenth month in Jiryaku, Jiryaku 2 (November 14, 1066). In his article on Akihira for the ''Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten'', suggests that he may have been 78 (by East Asian age reckoning#Japanese, Japanese reckoning) at the time of his death. Poetry References Citations Works cited

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Kanshi (poetry)
is a Japanese term for Chinese poetry in general as well as the Japanese poetry written in Chinese by Japanese poets. It literally means " Han poetry". ''Kanshi'' was the most popular form of poetry during the early Heian period in Japan among Japanese aristocrats and proliferated until the modern period. History The earliest collection of ''kanshi'' was the '' Kaifūsō'', compiled in 751. The ''Kaifūsō'' was also one of the earliest works of Japanese literature, and according to Judith Rabinovitch and Timothy Bradstock, it was a collection of occasional verse spanning from 672 to 751. The compiler of the ''Kaifūsō'' may have been Omi no Mifune, Isonokami no Yakatsugu, or Prince Shirakabe and Fujiwara no Satsuo. Three imperial collections of ''kanshi'' were compiled during the 9th century: the ''Ryōunshū'' of 814, the ''Bunka Shūreishū'' of 818, and the '' Keikokushū'' of 827. Indeed, ''kanshi'' was accorded a higher place than the native waka form until the Kokin Wakas ...
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Jōryaku Ninen Dairi Uta-awase
was a Japanese era name (年号, ''nengō'', lit. year name) after ''Jōhō'' and before '' Eihō.'' This period spanned the years from November 1077 through February 1081. The reigning emperor was . Change of Era * January 27, 1077 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Jōhō'' 4, on the 17th day of the 11th month of 1077. Events of the ''Jōryaku'' Era * 1077 (''Jōryaku 1, 1st month''): Shirakawa went to the Kamo Shrines; and he visited Kiyomizu-dera and other Buddhist temples.Titsingh p. 170./ref> * 1077 (''Jōryaku 1, 2nd month''): ''Udaijin'' Minamoto no Morofusa died at of an ulcer at the age of 70. * 1077 (''Jōryaku 1''): The emperor caused Hosshō-ji (dedicated to the "Superiority of Buddhist Law") to be built at Shirakawa in fulfillment of a sacred vow. This temple became only the first of a series of "sacred vow" temples to be created by Imperial decree. Hosshō-ji's nine-stori ...
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The was a Japanese aristocratic class that dominated the Japanese Imperial Court in Kyoto. The ''kuge'' were important from the establishment of Kyoto as the capital during the Heian period in the late 8th century until the rise of the Kamakura shogunate in the 12th century, at which point it was eclipsed by the bushi. The ''kuge'' still provided a weak court around the Emperor until the Meiji Restoration, when they merged with the daimyō, regaining some of their status in the process, and formed the kazoku (peerage), which lasted until shortly after World War II (1947), when the Japanese peerage system was abolished. Though there is no longer an official status, members of the kuge families remain influential in Japanese society, government, and industry. History ''Kuge'' (from Middle Chinese ''kuwng-kæ'' 公家, "royal family") originally described the Emperor and his court. The meaning of the word changed over time to designate bureaucrats at the court. During the Hei ...
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11th-century Japanese Poets
The 11th century is the period from 1001 ( MI) through 1100 ( MC) in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the 1st century of the 2nd millennium. In the history of Europe, this period is considered the early part of the High Middle Ages. There was, after a brief ascendancy, a sudden decline of Byzantine power and a rise of Norman domination over much of Europe, along with the prominent role in Europe of notably influential popes. Christendom experienced a formal schism in this century which had been developing over previous centuries between the Latin West and Byzantine East, causing a split in its two largest denominations to this day: Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. In Song dynasty China and the classical Islamic world, this century marked the high point for both classical Chinese civilization, science and technology, and classical Islamic science, philosophy, technology and literature. Rival political factions at the Song dynasty court created strife amongst t ...
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Kanshi Poets
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is a Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo.Louis Frédéric, ''Japan Encyclopedia'', Harvard University Press, 2005, p. 409. Iwanami Shoten was founded in 1913 by Iwanami Shigeo. Its first major publication was Natsume Sōseki's novel '' Kokoro'', which appeared as a book in 1914 after being serialized in the ''Asahi Shimbun''. Iwanami has since become known for scholarly publications, editions of classical Japanese literature, dictionaries, and high-quality paperbacks. Since 1955, it has published the ''Kōjien'', a single-volume dictionary of Japanese that is widely considered to be authoritative. Iwanami's head office is at Hitotsubashi 2–5–5, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Company history Iwanami Shigeo founded the publishing firm Iwanami Shoten in the Kanda district of Tokyo in 1913. In its early years, the company published authors such as Natsume Sōseki, Kurata Hyakuzō and Abe Jiro. It also published academic and literary journals in the field of philosophy, inc ...
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Jōryaku
was a Japanese era name (年号, ''nengō'', lit. year name) after ''Jōhō'' and before '' Eihō.'' This period spanned the years from November 1077 through February 1081. The reigning emperor was . Change of Era * January 27, 1077 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Jōhō'' 4, on the 17th day of the 11th month of 1077. Events of the ''Jōryaku'' Era * 1077 (''Jōryaku 1, 1st month''): Shirakawa went to the Kamo Shrines; and he visited Kiyomizu-dera and other Buddhist temples.Titsingh p. 170./ref> * 1077 (''Jōryaku 1, 2nd month''): ''Udaijin'' Minamoto no Morofusa died at of an ulcer at the age of 70. * 1077 (''Jōryaku 1''): The emperor caused Hosshō-ji (dedicated to the "Superiority of Buddhist Law") to be built at Shirakawa in fulfillment of a sacred vow. This temple became only the first of a series of "sacred vow" temples to be created by Imperial decree. Hosshō-ji's nine-stor ...
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Uta-awase
, poetry contests or '' waka'' matches, are a distinctive feature of the Japanese literary landscape from the Heian period. Significant to the development of Japanese poetics, the origin of group composition such as ''renga'', and a stimulus to approaching ''waka'' as a unified sequence and not only as individual units, the lasting importance of the poetic output of these occasions may be measured also from their contribution to the imperial anthologies: 92 poems of the Kokinshū and 373 of the Shin Kokinshū were drawn from ''uta-awase''. Social context , the matching of pairs of things by two sides, was one of the pastimes of the Heian court. The items matched might be , , sweet flag or iris roots, flowers, or poems. The last took on new seriousness at the end of the ninth century with the , the source of over fifty poems in the Kokinshū. The twenty-eight line diary of the devotes two of its lines to the musical accompaniments, gagaku and saibara, and four to the costum ...
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Heian Period
The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese. It is a period in Japanese history when the Chinese influences were in decline and the national culture matured. The Heian period is also considered the peak of the Japanese imperial court and noted for its art, especially poetry and literature. Two types of Japanese script emerged, including katakana, a phonetic script which was abbreviated into hiragana, a cursive alphabet with a unique writing method distinctive to Japan. This gave rise to Japan's famous vernacular literature, with many of its texts written by court women who were not as educated in Chinese compared to their male counterparts. Although the Imperial House of Japan had power on the surface, the real power was in the hands of the Fujiwara clan, a powerful aristocr ...
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