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Henjo (Japanese遍 昭or遍照; * 816, † February 21 890 ) was a Japanese waka poet and Buddhist priest. His birth name was Yoshimine no Munesada (良 岑宗贞). Thanks a reference in the preface of the 905 published and written by Ki no Tsurayuki imperial anthology of poems Kokin - wakashu he is regarded as one of the six best waka poets and is one of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
Henjo was the eighth son of Dainagon Yoshimine no Yasuyo, who was a son of the Kammu - tennō and had been dismissed from his father and his brothers from the Imperial Household to civilian life.
Henjo began his career as a courtier. He became the Kurodo, a sort of chamberlain of Nimmyō - tennō appointed. 849 he was appointed head of Kurodo ( Kurōdonotō ) appointed. After the death of Ninmyō - tennō, Henjo became a monk from his grief out.
He was a priest of the Tendai shū. 877 he founded the temple Gankei -ji in Yamashina, today in southeastern Kyoto. 869 another temple it was passed, the urine in Murasakino in the north of Kyoto. He managed both the temple and was appointed 885 Sojo and called himself now Kazan Sojo (花山 僧 正).
35 of his Waka were included in the imperial poetry anthologies, including Kokin - wakashu. In his preface, Ki no Tsurayuki criticized him as follows: "He knows Waka to construct, but there is little real sense. It's as if you 've just saw the picture of a woman and it moved your heart. "
His son Sosei was a waka poet and monk.
- Buddhist monk
- Literature (Japanese)
- Literature ( 9th century )
- Poetry
- Author
- Japanese
- Born 816
- Died 890
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