Fujiwara no Kanesuke
Illustration — Chūnagon Kanesuke by Kanō Naonobu, 1648 Fujiwara Fujiwara no Kanesuke, also known as the Riverbank Middle Counselor, was a middle Heian-period waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. His great-granddaughter was Murasaki Shikibu, author of the well-known monogatari the Tale of Genji.
Fujiwara no Kanesuke
Kanō Naonobu · Public domain
- Born
- 877
- Died
- 933
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Illustration — Chūnagon Kanesuke by Kanō Naonobu, 1648 Fujiwara Fujiwara no Kanesuke, also known as the Riverbank Middle Counselor, was a middle Heian-period waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals. His great-granddaughter was Murasaki Shikibu, author of the well-known monogatari the Tale of Genji.
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His father was Fujiwara no Toshimoto.
Kanesuke's poems are included in several imperial poetry anthologies, including Kokin Wakashū and Gosen Wakashū. A personal poetry collection known as the Kanesuke-shū also remains. 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." One of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu:
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Print artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) Print artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞 Toyokuni III)
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