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Egyō
was a Japanese ''waka'' poet of the mid-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the ''Ogura Hyakunin Isshu''. He produced a private collection, the '' Egyō-hōshi-shū'', and was listed as one of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry. Biography Although his exact birth and death dates are unknown, he flourished in the Kanna era in the mid-980s,''Britannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten'' article "Egyō". 2007. Britannica Japan Co. His name is sometimes read as ''Ekei''.McMillan 2010 : 140 (note 47). Poetry Fifty-six of his poems were included in imperial anthologies from the ''Shūi Wakashū'' on, and he was included in the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry. Along with , he was a central figure of the poetry circle of his day, and also associated with the poets Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu, Ki no Tokifumi and Taira no Kanemori. The following poem by him was included as No. 47 in Fujiwara no Teika's ''Ogura Hyakunin Isshu'': He also left a private ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyakuninisshu 047
is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese ''waka'' by one hundred poets. ''Hyakunin isshu'' can be translated to "one hundred people, one poem ach; it can also refer to the card game of ''uta-garuta'', which uses a deck composed of cards based on the ''Hyakunin Isshu''. The most famous and standard version was compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) while he lived in the Ogura district of Kyoto. It is therefore also known as . Compilation One of Teika's diaries, the ''Meigetsuki'', says that his son Tameie asked him to arrange one hundred poems for Tameie's father-in-law, Utsunomiya Yoritsuna, who was furnishing a residence near Mount Ogura; hence the full name of ''Ogura Hyakunin Isshu''. In order to decorate screens of the residence, Fujiwara no Teika produced the calligraphy poem sheets. Hishikawa Moronobu (1618–1694) provided woodblock portraits for each of the poets included in the anthology. Katsukawa Shunshō (1726–1793) designed prints for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals Of Poetry
The are a group of Japanese poets of the Asuka, Nara, and Heian periods selected by Fujiwara no Kintō as exemplars of Japanese poetic ability. The oldest surviving collection of the 36 poets' works is '' Nishi Honganji Sanju-rokunin Kashu'' ("Nishi Honganji 36 poets collection") of 1113. Similar groups of Japanese poets include the Kamakura period , composed by court ladies exclusively, and the , or Thirty-Six Heian-era Immortals of Poetry, selected by (1107–1165). This list superseded an older group called the Six Immortals of Poetry. Sets of portraits (essentially imaginary) of the group were popular in Japanese painting and later woodblock prints, and often hung in temples. Kintō's Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry # Kakinomoto no Hitomaro # Ki no Tsurayuki # Ōshikōchi Mitsune # Lady Ise # Ōtomo no Yakamochi # Yamabe no Akahito # Ariwara no Narihira # Henjō # Sosei # Ki no Tomonori # Sarumaru no Taifu # Ono no Komachi # Fujiwara no Kanesuke # Fujiw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
