Fujiwara no Kanesuke

Fujiwara no Kanesuke (藤原兼輔, 877–933), also known as the Riverbank Middle Counselor (堤中納言, Tsutsumi Chūnagon),[1]: 137  was a middle Heian-period waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.

Chūnagon Kanesuke by Kanō Naonobu, 1648
In this Japanese name, the surname is Fujiwara.

His great-granddaughter was Murasaki Shikibu, author of the well-known monogatari the Tale of Genji.

Poetry

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."[2]

One of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu:

みかの原わきて流るるいづみ川
     いつ見きとてか恋しかるらむ
mika no hara wakite nagaruru Izumi-gawa
itsu miki tote ka koishikaruran
When was it I got my first glimpse? Like the Moor of Jars divided by the Izumi river I am split in two—so deep my longing for you.[1]: 29 
(Shin Kokin Wakashū 11:996)

See also

References
  1. McMillan, Peter (2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Columbia University Press. p. 160. ISBN 9780231143998.
  2. The Tales of the Heike. Translated by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press. 2006. p. 48. ISBN 9780231138031.
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