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Dates of birth and death unknown. A poetic monk from the end of the Kamakura period to the Northern and Southern Courts period. Although much is unknown about his origins and career, he was known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Waka" of the Nijō Tameyo school, along with Ton'a, Kenkō, and Keiun. He was originally a monk at Mount Hiei, and later became a gon-ritsu priest. He is said to have been involved in the compilation of the private anthologies "Rin'ei-shū" and "Shoka-shū" after May 1327 (Ka-ryaku 2). He is credited with the authorship of "Poems Dedicated to Kongō-sammai-in Temple, Mount Koya" in 1344 (Kōkoku 5, Kōei 3), but is believed to have died shortly thereafter at around the age of 90. Twenty-one of his waka poems are included in imperial anthologies starting with "Shokusenzaishu."

The autumn wind blows over the face of the rice fields, where cedars stand, and the moonlight is cold in Yamamoto, Miwa [Inada Toshinori]

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生没年未詳。鎌倉末・南北朝時代の歌僧。出自、経歴など不明な点が多いが、頓阿(とんあ)、兼好(けんこう)、慶運(きょううん)などとともに、二条為世(ためよ)門の「和歌四天王(してんのう)」と称された。もと叡山(えいざん)の僧で、権律師(ごんのりっし)に至る。1327年（嘉暦2）5月以降に九州に下向、私撰(しせん)集『臨永集(りんえいしゅう)』や『松花集(しょうかしゅう)』の撰集にも関係したとされる。1344年（興国5・康永3）の『高野山金剛三昧院(こうやさんこんごうさんまいいん)奉納和歌』の作者になっているが、これ以降まもなく、90歳前後の高齢で没したと推定される。和歌は『続千載集(しょくせんざいしゅう)』以下の勅撰集に21首入集(にっしゅう)。

　杉立てる門田の面の秋風に月影寒き三輪の山本
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