Nijo-in Sanuki - Nijo-in Sanuki

Japanese: 二条院讃岐 - にじょういんのさぬき

Year of death: Kenpo 5 (1217)
Year of birth: Around Eiji 1 (1141)
A court lady poet from the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. Her father was Yorimasa, the Ukyo Gon-no-daifu of the Settsu Genji clan, and her mother was the granddaughter of Minamoto no Nariyari. She first served Emperor Nijō, and later served Emperor Gotoba's Empress Ninshi (Gishūmon'in), and was active as a poet for a long period of time, appearing in such works as the Shōji Hatsudo Hyakushu (Shoji First One Hundred Poems) in 1200 and the Sengohyakuban Utaawase (Sengohyakuban Utaawase) in 1203. Her most famous work is "My sleeves are invisible at low tide, the people on the rocks offshore do not know, and they have no time to dry," which was included in the Hyakunin Isshu. After this poem, she was also called "Sanuki, the rocks offshore." Her family anthology includes the Nijōin Sanukishu, and 72 of her poems (excluding duplicates) have been collected in imperial anthologies such as the Senzai Wakashu. <References> Morimoto Motoko, Nijōin Sanuki to sono hanakanai (Nijōin Sanuki and its Surroundings)

(Mutsumi Kato)

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Japanese:

没年：建保5頃(1217)
生年：永治1頃(1141)
平安時代末,鎌倉時代初頭の女房歌人。父は摂津源氏の右京権大夫頼政,母は源斉頼の孫。初め二条天皇,のちに後鳥羽天皇中宮任子(宜秋門院)に仕え,正治2(1200)年『正治初度百首』,建仁3(1203)年『千五百番歌合』などに出詠,長い期間にわたり歌人として活躍した。代表作は,百人一首に採られた「わが袖は潮干に見えぬ沖の石の人こそ知らね乾く間もなし」で,この歌にちなんで,「沖の石の讃岐」とも呼ばれた。家集に『二条院讃岐集』があり,『千載和歌集』以下の勅撰集に72首(重複のぞく)が入集している。<参考文献>森本元子『二条院讃岐とその周辺』

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