Fujiwara no Sadakata
Fujiwara • Illustration — Fujiwara no Sadakata, in Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Fujiwara no Sadakata, also known as the Minister of the Right of Sanjō, was a Japanese poet and courtier. The poet Fujiwara no Kanesuke was his cousin and son-in-law and his son Asatada was also a poet. He had another son by the name of Fujiwara no Tomoyori and his father was Fujiwara no Takafuji.
Fujiwara no Sadakata

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- Born
- 873
- Died
- 932
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages
- Japanese
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He was appointed as Udajin of the Third Ward and we see him in storied from the Tales of Yamato. 19 poems can be found in the Imperial Anthologies, and he also had a private collection of poems.
One of his poems is included in Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: In English, this poem would read as such: "If they bear such a name: On Mount Osaka, with the scarlet ivy that tells you to "Come and sleep!" Oh, how I wish there would a way to come to you, as if pulling such a vine, intangible to others."

Album of colour woodblock prints. 51 prints?
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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