Akazomeemon - Akazomeemon

Dates of birth and death unknown. A female poet of the mid-Heian period and one of the Thirty-six Immortal Poets of the Middle Ages. Daughter of Uemon-no-jo Akasome Tokimochi. However, since she was born after Taira Kanemori's wife remarried Tokimochi, it is also said that she was Kanemori's daughter (Fukuro-soshi). After a love affair with Oe Tamemoto, she married his cousin Oe Masahira, and had children Takachika and Go no Jiju. She served Kanpaku Michinaga's wife Rinshi and her daughter Jotomon-in Shoshi, and was also friends with Sei Shonagon, Izumi Shikibu, and Murasaki Shikibu. In 1001 (Choho 3) and again in 1009 (Kanko 6), she went down to her appointed province of Owari with her husband. She was highly praised as a good wife and mother, and her personality is conveyed in the "Murasaki Shikibu Diary." As a poet, she wrote "Gojugoban Utaawase" and "Takatsukasadono Noriko no Shichijuu Byobu Uta." She was also active in the "Kanpaku Sadaijin Yorimichi Utaawase" in 1035 (Chogen 8), and was known for her gentle and elegant style of poetry, such as "I sleep peacefully, but I look at the moon until it becomes too late." In 1041 (Chokyu 2), she wrote a poem celebrating the birth of her great-grandson Masafusa, and it seems that she died shortly thereafter at the age of about 80. There are two versions of the Akasomemonshu, one in vogue and one variant, of the family anthology. The former is a miscellaneous, self-selected edition arranged roughly chronologically, while the latter is a similar anthology compiled by others.

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生没年不詳。平安中期の女流歌人で中古三十六歌仙の一人。右衛門尉赤染時用(ときもち)の娘。ただし平兼盛(かねもり)の妻が時用と再婚後に生まれたことから、兼盛の娘かともいわれる（『袋草紙』）。大江為基(おおえのためもと)との恋愛を経てその従弟(いとこ)大江匡衡(まさひら)と結婚、挙周(たかちか)、江侍従(ごうのじじゅう)らをもうけた。関白道長夫人倫子(りんし)ならびにその子上東門院彰子(しょうし)に仕え、清少納言、和泉(いずみ)式部、紫式部らとも交友があった。1001年（長保3）、1009年（寛弘6）の再度、夫とともに任国尾張(おわり)に下向、良妻賢母の誉れ高く、『紫式部日記』がその人柄を伝えている。歌人としては『後十五番歌合』『鷹司殿(たかつかさどの)倫子七十賀屏風歌(びょうぶうた)』の作者で、1035年（長元8）『関白左大臣頼通(よりみち)歌合』などに活躍、「やすらはで寝なましものを小夜(さよ)ふけてかたぶくまでの月を見しかな」など温厚典雅な歌風で知られる。1041年（長久2）曽孫(そうそん)匡房(まさふさ)の誕生を祝った歌があり、その後まもなく80余歳で没したらしい。家集に流布本、異本2種の『赤染衛門集』があり、前者はほぼ年次配列された雑纂自撰(ざっさんじせん)本、後者は類纂他撰本である。

［犬養　廉］

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