Jakuren - Jakuren

Japanese: 寂蓮 - じゃくれん

Year of death: Around 20th July 1202 (9th August 1202)
Year of birth: 1139
A poet of the Heian and Kamakura periods. His real name was Fujiwara no Sadanaga. He was the son of Ajari Toshikai, a monk at Daigoji Temple and the brother of Fujiwara no Shunzei. He was adopted by Shunzei around 1150, and became a monk around 1172. He participated in several poetry contests while he was still a layperson, starting with the "Taira no Tsunemori Ason Family Poetry Contest" in August 1167. After becoming a monk, he began to write poetry in earnest, composing poems with Fujiwara no Teika and others in works such as "Futamiura Hyakushu" (1186, Saigyo Kanjin) and "Inpumon'in Daifu Hyakushu" (1187), and contributing to the establishment of a new style of waka poetry. He is famous for having engaged in a fierce debate with Akiaki of the Rokujo family in the "Six Hundred Poems Contest" around 1193. He was included in the Shoji 2nd Year First One Hundred Poems (1200) and was a major poet in the Gotoba Emperor Sen'do poetry circle. In July 1201, he became a member of the newly established Wakadokoro, and was subsequently selected as a judge for the Shin Kokin Wakashū (1205). He subsequently participated in events such as the Ken'nin Gannen Sen'do Gojushu, the Santai Wakashū (1202), and the Sengohyakuban Utaawase (around 1202), but he passed away before seeing the completion of the Shin Kokin Wakashū. His family anthologies include the Jakuren Hoshishu, as well as the Mudai Hyakushu and Ketsudai Hyakushu. He has 117 poems included in imperial anthologies such as the Senzai Wakashū. He was a man of great intellect and talent, and was known for his sharp style of poetry, skilled in techniques such as honkadori. <References> Kohei Handa, "The Complete Collection of Poems by Jakuren-hoshi and its Research"

(Yasuaki Watanabe)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：建仁2.7.20頃(1202.8.9)
生年：保延5?(1139)
平安・鎌倉時代の歌人。俗名は藤原定長。藤原俊成の兄弟である醍醐寺の僧,阿闍梨俊海の子。久安6(1150)年ごろ俊成の養子となり,承安2(1172)年ごろ出家した。仁安2(1167)年8月『平経盛朝臣家歌合』を初めとして,在俗時代からいくつかの歌合に参加。出家後作歌活動も本格化し,『二見浦百首』(1186年,西行勧進)や『殷富門院大輔百首』(1187)など藤原定家らと詠み,新風和歌の確立に貢献した。建久4(1193)年ごろの『六百番歌合』で,六条家の顕昭と激しい論争を闘わせたことは有名。『正治二年初度百首』(1200)の作者に加えられ,後鳥羽院仙洞歌壇の主要歌人として活躍。建仁1(1201)年7月,新たに設置された和歌所の寄人となり,次いで『新古今和歌集』(1205)の選者に選ばれた。その後も,『建仁元年仙洞五十首』や『三体和歌』(1202),『千五百番歌合』(1202年ごろ)などの催しに名を連ねたが,『新古今和歌集』の完成をみることなく没した。家集に『寂蓮法師集』があり,そのほか『無題百首』『結題百首』が存する。『千載和歌集』以下の勅撰集に,117首入集。才知,才気に富み,本歌取などの技法を巧みにこなす,切れ味のよい詠み口を身上とする。<参考文献>半田公平『寂蓮法師全歌集とその研究』

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