Utsunomiya Yoritsuna
{{Short description|Japanese samurai and poet}}
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{{nihongo|Utsunomiya Yoritsuna|宇都宮頼綱}} was a Japanese samurai and waka poet of the early Kamakura period.Britannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten article "Utsunomiya Yoritsuna". 2007. Britannica Japan Co.Digital Daijisen entry [https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%AE%87%E9%83%BD%E5%AE%AE%E9%A0%BC%E7%B6%B1-34929 "Utsunomiya Yoritsuna"]. Shogakukan.
Family
Poetry
He was a close friend of Fujiwara no Teika and his daughter married Teika's son Tameie.Keene 1999 : 738 (note 28).McMillan 2010 : xxv. He is also said to have commissioned Teika's compilation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.Shinshu University Faculty of Arts [http://www.shinshu-u.ac.jp/faculty/arts/course/ja-literature/2009/12/ Japanese Literature Course Outline]. December 2009. The collection was originally prepared (in a slightly different form to the present Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) to {{nihongo|decorate screens|屏風歌|byōbu-uta|extra="screen-poems"}} in Yoritsuna's Mt. Ogura residence in the Saga district of Kyoto.Suzuki et al. 2009 : 2.
He was the head of one of the chief poetic houses of the Kamakura period.
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Bibliography
- {{cite book
| last = Keene
| first = Donald
| authorlink = Donald Keene
| title = A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart — Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century
| publisher = Columbia University Press
| location = New York
| year = 1999
| isbn = 978-0-231-11441-7
}}
- {{cite book
| last = McMillan
| first = Peter
| authorlink = Peter McMillan
| title = One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each
| publisher = Columbia University Press
| location = New York
| year = 2010
| isbn = 978-0-231-14399-8
}}
- {{cite book
| last1 = Suzuki
| first1 = Hideo
| last2 = Yamaguchi
| first2 = Shin'ichi
| last3 = Yoda
| first3 = Yasushi
| title = Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
| publisher = Bun'eidō
| location = Tokyo
| year = 2009
| isbn = 978-4-578-10082-9
}}
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Category:12th-century Japanese poets
Category:13th-century Japanese poets
Category:People of Kamakura-period Japan
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