Sagami (poet)

Sagami, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

Sagami (相模, dates unknown but born c. 1000), also known as Oto-jijū (乙侍従), was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. She produced a private collection, the Sagami-shū (相模集).

Biography

She was supposedly a daughter of Minamoto no Yorimitsu.

She was married to Ōe no Kin'yori (大江公資, also read Kinsuke.), the governor of Sagami Province. She served Prince Shūshi (脩子内親王, Shuushi-naishinnou), one of the sons of Emperor Ichijō.

Poetry

109 of her poems were included in imperial anthologies starting with the Goshūi Wakashū. She was included in the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.

The following poem by her was included as No. 65 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:

Japanese text	Romanized Japanese	English translation
恨みわび ほさぬ袖だに あるものを 恋に朽ちなむ 名こそ惜しけれ	Urami-wabi hosanu sode dani aru mono wo koi ni kuchinan na koso oshikere	My sleeves will never dry with all these bitter tears of unrequited love. But even worse, the regret of having lost my good name— tainted by this love.

Bibliography

• Keene, Donald (1999). A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart — Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.
• McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Suzuki Hideo, Yamaguchi Shin'ichi, Yoda Yasushi. 2009 (1st ed. 1997). Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Tokyo: Bun'eidō.

External links

• Sagami's poems in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies's online waka database.
• Sagami-shū in the same database.
• Sagami on Kotobank.