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

His father was {{nihongo|Utsunomiya Naritsuna|宇都宮成綱}}. He married a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa.

After entering Buddhist orders, he took the name {{nihongo|Renshō|蓮生}}, and was also known as {{nihongo|Ogura Nyūdō|小倉入道||extra="the monk of Ogura"}}.

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.

References

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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:Samurai

Category:People of Kamakura-period Japan

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