Utsunomiya Yoritsuna
Utsunomiya • Illustration — Utsunomiya Yoritsuna by Utagawa Sadahide Utsunomiya Yoritsuna was a Japanese samurai and waka poet of the early Kamakura period.
Also recorded as Renshō · Utsunomiya Yasaburō
Utsunomiya Yoritsuna
- Born
- 1178
- Died
- 1259
- Occupation
- samurai · bushi · poet
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His father was Utsunomiya Naritsuna. He married a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa. After entering Buddhist orders, he took the name Renshō, and was also known as Ogura Nyūdō.
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He was a close friend of Fujiwara no Teika and his daughter married Teika's son Tameie. He is also said to have commissioned Teika's compilation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. The collection was originally prepared (in a slightly different form to the present Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) to decorate screens in Yoritsuna's Mt. Ogura residence in the Saga district of Kyoto. He was the head of one of the chief poetic houses of the Kamakura period.
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1178
Utsunomiya Yoritsuna born.
1259
Utsunomiya Yoritsuna died.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Renshō and Utsunomiya Yasaburō. He was the child of Utsunomiya Naritsuna. 2 children are recorded: Mashiko Masatsuna and Takō Munetomo. Other recorded relations include Tokitomo Kasama.
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