Nijō Tameyo
Nijō Tameyo (二条為世, 1250–1338), also known as Fujiwara no Tameyo (藤原為世), was a Japanese courtier and waka poet of the late Kamakura period and the early Nanboku-chō period. His Dharma name was Myōshaku (明釈).
Biography
[edit]Ancestry, birth and early life
[edit]Nijō Tameyo was born in 1250.[1] His father was Fujiwara no Tameuji,[2] and his mother was a daughter of Asukai Norisada.[3] He was Tameuji's eldest son,[4] a grandson of Fujiwara no Tameie,[4] and a great-grandson of Fujiwara no Teika.[5]
Political career
[edit]He was a supporter of the Daikakuji line, descendants of Emperor Kameyama, in the succession disputes of the late Kamakura period.[2] At the height of his political career, he had attained the Senior Second Rank,[6] and held the position of Provisional Major Counselor (gon-dainagon).[7]
Later life and death
[edit]He entered Buddhist orders in 1329,[3] acquiring the Dharma name Myōshaku.[6] He died on 18 September 1338,[8] or the fifth day of the eighth month of Engen 3 by Southern Court reckoning, Ryakuō 1 by Northern Court reckoning.[8]
Poetry
[edit]Tameyo learned waka composition from his father Tameuji and his grandfather Tameie, who between them had compiled four of the imperial anthologies.[4]
In 1303,[9] on the command of Retired Emperor Go-Uda,[9] Tameyo compiled the Shin Gosen Wakashū.[7] In 1320,[7] also under the direction of Retired Emperor Go-Uda,[7] he compiled the Shoku Senzai Wakashū.[9]
As a result of the accession of Emperor Hanazono, a member of the rival Jimyō-in line, to the throne in 1308,[8] he had a bitter dispute with his cousin Kyōgoku Tamekane over the compilation of the next imperial anthology,[7] a dispute he lost.[10] He attacked Tamekane in his Enkei Ryōkyō Sochin-jō.[11]
He was also known as a teacher of waka composition,[1] and his students included the so-called "Four Heavenly Kings of Waka":[1] Jōben (浄弁), Kenkō, Ton'a and Keiun (慶運).[1]
He produced a privately-compiled anthology, the Shoku Gen'yō-shū (続現葉集),[8] and produced the poetic theory book Waka Teikin (和歌庭訓).[9] He left a personal anthology, the Tameyo-shū.[4]
177 of his poems are included in imperial collections from the Shoku Shūi Wakashū on.[11]
He was also a composer of renga, and some of his work was included in the Tsukuba-shū.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Misumi 1994; Inoue 1994.
- ^ a b Misumi 1994; Inoue 1994; Mypaedia 1996.
- ^ a b Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Inoue 1994.
- ^ Bijutsu Jinmei Jiten 2016.
- ^ a b Inoue 1994; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Misumi 1994; Inoue 1994; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014; Mypaedia 1996.
- ^ a b c d Misumi 1994.
- ^ a b c d Misumi 1994; Inoue 1994; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.
- ^ Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014; Mypaedia 1996.
- ^ a b Misumi 1994; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.
Works cited
[edit]- "Nijō Tameyo" 二条為世. Bijutsu Jinmei Jiten (in Japanese). Shibunkaku. 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- "Nijō Tameyo" 二条為世. Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten (in Japanese). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2014. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- Inoue, Muneo (1994). "Fujiwara no Tameyo" 二条為世. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- Misumi, Yōichi (1994). "Nijō Tameyo" 二条為世. Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun-sha. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- Keene, Donald (1999) [1993]. A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart – Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (paperback ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.
- "Nijō Tameyo" 二条為世. Mypaedia (in Japanese). Hitachi. 1996. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
