Yoshitada Sone

Japanese: 曾禰好忠 - そねのよしただ

Years of birth: unknown. A poet of the Heian period. His family history and career are unknown, but he is known to have been in his 30s around the 4th or 5th year of Tentoku (960 or 961). He was also known as Sotango or Sotan, as he was a Tango no Jō. He was later invited to a poetry contest held by the Minister of the Left in Sanjō in 977 (977) and submitted a poem to the contest, and he also participated in several other poetry contests. However, he is famous for an incident in 985 (985) when he was not invited to attend a public entertainment event on the day of En'yū-in's son's birth and was chased out. The family anthology "Kochushu" consists of a monthly collection of 360 poems, one for each day of the year, a hundred waka poems (a waka poem composed in units of 100 poems), and 100 replies by Minamoto no Tsuyoshi to the hundred poems. Of these, the monthly collection is a groundbreaking attempt to divide the year into seasons, months, and seasons, with one poem per day as the main theme, and seasonal scenery and annual events also included in designated spaces. The hundred-poem form is also said to have originated with Kochu's composition, and was imitated by many poets, including Keikei and Minamoto no Shigeyuki, becoming the forerunner of a style that would become widely used in later generations. It is noteworthy that neither was ordered by a nobleman, but was an attempt by the poet to compose a world by combining many poems that expressed his own feelings. Many of his ideas and terminology were novel, and the word "Usugasoma" in the poem "Nake ya nake Usugasoma no kirigirisu, passing autumn, so sad" included in "Goshuishū" was criticized by Fujiwara no Nagayoshi as an expression that deviated from the norm, but on the other hand, it also played a major role in ushering in a new style for the next generation. More than 90 of his poems have been collected in imperial anthologies such as "Shuishū".

(Yamamoto Norio)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
平安時代の歌人。家系,経歴とも不明だが,天徳4,5(960,61)年ころ30歳すぎであったことが知られる。また,丹後掾であったことから,曾丹後,曾丹と通称された。貞元2(977)年の三条左大臣歌合に後日召されて歌を献上したほか,いくつかの歌合に出詠しているが,永観3(985)年の円融院の子の日の御遊に,召されていないのに出席して追い出された事件は有名である。家集『好忠集』は,1年の日数に合わせた360首からなる毎月集と百首歌(100首を単位として詠まれた和歌),およびその百首歌への源順の答歌の100首などからなっているが,このうち毎月集は,1年の生活感を主な主題に,季節の風物や年中行事などをも所定の場所に詠み込みつつ,1日1首の形で四季,月,旬に区切って構成された画期的な試みである。また百首歌という形もこの好忠の作に始まるとされ,恵慶,源重之など多くの歌人に模倣されて,後代に多用されるさきがけとなった。ともに貴顕に命ぜられたのではなく,歌人がみずからの感懐を多くの歌の組み合わせによって一世界に構成しようとしている点が注目される。その発想や用語には新奇なものが多く,『後拾遺集』に採られた「鳴けや鳴け薄が杣のきりぎりす過ぎゆく秋はげにぞ悲しき」の歌の「薄が杣」の語などは,藤原長能に常規を逸した表現として非難されたが,一方で次代の新風を導いた要素も大きい。『拾遺集』以下の勅撰集に90首以上が入集している。

(山本登朗)

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