Jakuren

Jakuren (Japanese寂 莲, Birth Name: Fujiwara no Sadanaga ,藤原 定 长; * 1139, † August 9, 1202 ) was a Japanese poet and Buddhist monk.

Life

Sadanaga was the nephew of the famous poet Fujiwara no Shunzei and was adopted by the latter, after his father had entered as a priest in the temple of Daigo -ji. He received early training from his uncle and has held a post in the administration. 1167 he took part in a poetry competition in Kyoto. As Shunzeis son Fujiwara no Teika grew up left, Sadanaga ( probably around 1172 ) the house of his uncle, became a Buddhist monk and took the name of Jakuren.

He undertook the following years traveled extensively in Japan and wrote poetry collections with innovative young poets like Kujo Yoshitsune, Fujiwara no Teika and Fujiwara no Ietaka. When Roppyakuban utaawase (六百 番 歌 合), the poetry competition in 600 rounds 1193-94, Jakuren be profiled as representatives of the reformist Mikohidari school of poetry against the conservative Rokujo school.

By 1200 he was one of the leading poets at the court of Emperor Go - Toba. He was one of the compilers of the imperial collection of poems Shinkokin - Wakashū, in which several of his own poems have been included, but died before its completion.

Swell

• Anne Commons: Hitomaro: poet as god, BRILL, 2009, ISBN 9789004174610, pp. 128 f
• Shinkei ( Übers: Esperanza Ramirez -Christensen U. ): murmured conversations: a treatise on poetry and Buddhism, Stanford University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780804748636, pp. 342-43