Fujiwara no Tametoki

Dates of birth and death unknown. A man of letters in the mid-Heian period. He was the son of Masatada, grandson of Chunagon Kanesuke, and his mother was the daughter of Udaijin Sadakata. Father of Murasaki Shikibu. He was a close attendant to Emperor Kazan since his days as Crown Prince, but after he became a nun, he was appointed as the governor of Echizen after submitting a petition with a poem (996, Konjaku Monogatari and others). During his post, he exchanged poems with people from Song who had drifted ashore. He was one of the Confucian poets who frequented the residence of Prince Tomohira (Emperor Murakami), and was also fond of waka poetry. Even after Fujiwara no Michinaga took power, he often attended poetry parties, and continued composing poetry after becoming a monk at Miidera Temple (April 1016), but it seems he passed away sometime after January 1018. His poems are collected in "Honcho Reiso" (13 poems), "Ruiju Kudaisho" (five poems), and other works, and four of his waka poems have been included in imperial anthologies such as "Goshuishū".

[Hiroshi Ito]

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生没年未詳。平安中期の文人。中納言(ちゅうなごん)兼輔(かねすけ)の孫、雅正(まさただ)の子で、母は右大臣定方(さだかた)の女(むすめ)。紫式部の父。東宮時代以来近侍した花山(かざん)天皇の出家後不遇をかこち、詩を付した申文(もうしぶみ)を奉って越前守(えちぜんのかみ)に任じられた話（996、『今昔物語』ほか）は有名で、任地ではおりから漂着した宋(そう)人と詩の贈答をした。具平(ともひら)親王（村上帝皇子）邸に出入りする儒者詩人の一人で、和歌もよくした。藤原道長の専権後もしばしば詩歌の宴に列し、三井寺で出家（1016年4月）ののちも詠作を続けたが、18年1月以降没したらしい。その詩は『本朝麗藻(れいそう)』（13首）、『類聚(るいじゅ)句題抄』（五首）ほかに収録され、『後拾遺(ごしゅうい)集』以下の勅撰(ちょくせん)集に四首の和歌をとられている。

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