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administrator and '' waka'' poet of the Japanese court ( 859–

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), and a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. He was sent as the governor of Kai, Izumi and

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s, and on his return to

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was asked to participate in the compilation of the ''

Kokin Wakashū The , commonly abbreviated as , is an early anthology of the '' waka'' form of Japanese poetry, dating from the Heian period. An imperial anthology, it was conceived by Emperor Uda () and published by order of his son Emperor Daigo () in abou ...

''. He was a master of poetic matches and his poems to accompany pictures on

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, and he has an unusually large number of poems (193) included in the official poetry collections. He is known to many Japanese today as one of his poems was included in the famous anthology

Hyakunin Isshu 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 compo ...

References

*Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: ''The Princeton companion to classical Japanese literature''. Princeton University Press, 2. Printing 1988, , p. 215
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