Taira Tadanori - Taira no Tadanori

Japanese: 平忠度 - たいらのただのり

Year of death: 1st February 7th (1184.3.20)
Year of birth: Tenyo 1 (1144)
A military commander and poet of the late Heian period. He was the son of Tadamori and the youngest brother of Kiyomori, and his mother is said to be the daughter of Fujiwara no Tametada, but the details are unknown. His highest official position was Satsuma no Kami, Junior Fourth Rank. Since the outbreak of the Genpei War, he participated as one of the great generals in battles such as the Battle of Fujigawa in 1180, the Battle of Sunomatagawa the following year, and the Battle of Tonamiyama in 1183. He was also famous as a poet, and his poems were included in imperial anthologies. There is a famous anecdote about how, when the Taira clan fled the capital in 1182, he entrusted a volume of poetry to his teacher, Fujiwara no Shunzei. One of the poems, "Sazanami ya Shiga no Miyako wa Are Nishi wo Mukashi nagara no Yama Sakura kana," appears as an anonymous author in the Senzaishu. The poem also exists today as the Taira no Tadatsugushu (Waka section of Gunsho Ruiju). In the following year, 1184, he was killed by Okabe Rokuyata Tadazumi in the Battle of Ichinotani. He was a typical Taira nobleman who was skilled in elegance despite being a military commander.

(Yasushi Motoki)

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Japanese:

没年：元暦1.2.7(1184.3.20)
生年：天養1(1144)
平安末期の武将,歌人。忠盛の子,清盛の末弟で,母は藤原為忠の娘ともいうが未詳。極官は正四位下薩摩守。源平争乱勃発以来,治承4(1180)年の富士川の戦,翌年の墨俣川の戦,寿永2(1183)年の礪波山の戦などの合戦に大将軍のひとりとして参戦。また歌人として有名で勅撰集にも入集。寿永2年の平氏都落ちに際し,師藤原俊成に詠草1巻を託した逸話は有名。そのなかの一首「さざ波や志賀の都はあれにしを昔ながらの山さくらかな」は『千載集』によみ人知らずとして載る。またその詠草も『平忠度集』(『群書類従』和歌部)として現存。翌元暦1(1184)年,一の谷の戦において岡部六弥太忠澄に討たれた。武将ながら風雅に長けた平氏の公達の典型であった。

(元木泰雄)

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