Toshiyuki Fujiwara

A poet of the early Heian period. Son of the inspector Fujimaro. His mother was the daughter of Kinona Tora. He served as a chamberlain, head librarian, Crown Prince's Chief Instructor, and other positions before becoming a Junior Fourth Rank Upper Right Guard Captain. He was one of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets and excelled in calligraphy. He was one of the central poets of the Uda Emperor period, and 19 of his poems are included in the Kokinshu, but most of them were composed for the "Koresada Imperial Family Poetry Contest" and the "Kanpyo no Onto Tokikisai no Miya Poetry Contest." He has many famous poems, such as the one "Autumn has come, but I am startled by the sound of the wind" which is placed at the beginning of the autumn poems in the "Kokinshu", and he also has excellent love poems.

[Akio Kawamura]

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平安前期の歌人。按察使富士麿の子。母は紀名虎(きのなとら)の女(むすめ)。蔵人(くろうど)、図書頭(ずしょのかみ)、春宮(とうぐう)大進などを経て、従(じゅ)四位上右兵衛督(うひょうえのかみ)に至った。三十六歌仙の一人で、書にも秀でた。宇多(うだ)天皇期の中心的歌人の一人で、『古今集』に19首入集(にっしゅう)しているが、その多くは「是貞(これさだ)親王家歌合(うたあわせ)」「寛平御時后宮(かんぴょうのおおんとききさいのみや)歌合」での作である。著名な詠歌が多く、「秋来ぬと目にはさやかに見えねども風の音にぞおどろかれぬる」という一首は『古今集』の秋歌の巻頭に配されており、また恋歌にも優れたものがある。家集に『敏行朝臣(あそん)集』がある。

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