Fujiwara no Michinobu

He produced a private waka collection, the Michinobu-shū.

• Illustration — Katsushika Hokusai, The Poem of Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason, 1839, Princeton University Art Museum, depicting the poem transcribed in the cartouche at upper right: Though I know full well That the night will come again, E'en when day has dawned; Yet, in truth, I hate the sight, Of the morning's coming light. Born in 972, he was a son of Tamemitsu and adopted by the latter's brother Kaneie. He served as commander of the guard, and although he died young he was considered a brilliant commander. He died in 994.

Forty-eight of his poems were included in imperial anthologies, and he was listed as one of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry. The following poem by him was included as No. 52 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: • Japanese text — Romanized Japanese — English translation •:明けぬれば:暮るるものとは:知りながら:なほうらめしき:朝ぼらけかな —:Akenureba:kururu mono to wa:shiri-nagara:nao urameshiki:asaborake kana —:As the sun rises:I know that when:it sets at night:I can see you again.:Yet even so, how hateful—:Parting in this cold light of dawn. A private collection of his poems, the Michinobu-shū, survives.