Fujiwara no Kanesuke
Template:Japanese name Fujiwara no Kanesuke (877—933, Japanese: 藤原 兼輔, also 中納言兼輔, Chūnagon Kanesuke and 堤中納言 Tsutsumi Chūnagon)[1]: 137 was a middle Heian waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals and one of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu. Kanesuke's poems are included in several imperial poetry anthologies, including Kokin Wakashū and Gosen Wakashū. A personal poetry collection known as the Kanesukeshū also remains.
His great-granddaughter was Murasaki Shikibu, author of the well-known monogatari the Tale of Genji.
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The Tale of Heike contains "an almost direct quotation" of his poem in the Gosenshū (no. 1102). The passage goes, "...as clear as a father's understanding may be in all other matters, love blinds him when it comes to his own child."[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c McMillan, Peter (2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Columbia University Press. p. 160. ISBN 9780231143998.
- ^ The Tales of the Heike. Translated by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press. 2006. p. 48. ISBN 9780231138031.
External links
- E-text of his poems in Japanese
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