Ōshikōchi no Mitsune

Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (Japanese凡 河内 躬 恒;. Bl 898-922 ) was a Japanese waka poet.

Life

He was one of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry and one of the compilers of the Kokinshu.

He served as provincial officials and was last 921 non-scheduled provincial secretary of Awaji.

Mitsune was a master of his craft and began early to write. His works are often about nature. His works are part of the anthology Hyakunin Isshu. In Japanese anthologies 193 are handed down from his poems.

Swell

  • Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. 2nd edition. Princenton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1988, ISBN 0-691-00825-6, p 215 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
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