was a Japanese poet and Buddhist

monk A monk (; from , ''monachos'', "single, solitary" via Latin ) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery. A monk usually lives his life in prayer and contemplation. The concept is ancient and can be seen in many reli ...

of the late

Heian The Japanese word Heian (平安, lit. "peace") may refer to: * Heian period, an era of Japanese history * Heian-kyō, the Heian-period capital of Japan that has become the present-day city of Kyoto * Heian series, a group of karate kata (forms) * ...

and early

Kamakura period The is a period of History of Japan, Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the G ...

s. He was the son of Fujiwara no Motofusa, and was known as the . He was one of the New Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry, and many of his poems appear in imperial poetry collections such as the ''

Shinchokusen Wakashū , abbreviated as ''Shinchokusenshū'', is an imperial anthology of Japanese waka, initially compiled in ~1234 CE at the behest of the Retired Emperor Go-Horikawa. It was compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (who also wrote its Japanese preface). It c ...

'', '' Shokushūi Wakashū'', '' Shingosen Wakashū'', and '' Shokusenzai Wakashū''.

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1170s births 1217 deaths Japanese poets Matsudono family People of the Heian period People of the Kamakura period 13th-century Buddhists Japanese male poets Buddhist clergy of the Heian period Buddhist clergy of the Kamakura period {{japan-writer-stub Tendai Buddhist monks