Ki no Tsurayuki
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Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese author, poet and court noble of the Heian period. He is best known as the principal compiler of the Kokin Wakashū, also writing its Japanese Preface, and as a possible a
Ki no Tsurayuki by Kikuchi Yōsai
Ki no Tsurayuki by Kanō Tan'yū, 1648
Tosa Nikki faithfully copied by Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) (Museum of the Imperial Collections)
Ariwara no Narihira
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Ariwara no Narihira was a Japanese courtier and waka poet of the early Heian period. He was named one of both the Six Poetic Geniuses and the Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses, and one of his poems was inclu
Ki no Tsurayuki
…origin to his contemporary waka, which he grouped into genres, referred to some major poets and gave a bit of harsh criticism to his predecessors like Ariwara no Narihira. Tsurayuki composed well over 500 poems throughout his life, including those included in the Kokinshu, imperial collections, and personal collections…
Ariwara no Narihira (1648)
The reputed site of Narihira's residence, near Karasuma Oike Station
Ariwara no Narihira looking for the ghost of Ono no Komachi, in an 1891 print by Yoshitoshi
The Mount Yoshida grave site