Fujiwara Headmaster - Fujiwara no Norinaga

A poet and calligrapher from the late Heian period. His father was the Second Rank Dainagon Fujiwara Tadanori, and his mother was the daughter of Minamoto Toshiakira. He rose to the rank of Third Rank Councilor. As a close aide to Emperor Sutoku, he contributed to the "Kyuan Hyakushu" (One Hundred Poems of the Kyuan Era), but after the Hogen Rebellion he was exiled to Hitachi Province (Ibaraki Prefecture), where he became a monk and took the name Kanren. In 1162 (Oho 2), he was pardoned and returned to Kyoto, and later retired to Koyasan, but he continued his waka poetry activities, and in 1177 (Jisho 1), he gave a lecture on the "Kokinshu" (Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poets) and wrote the "Commentary on the Kokinshu" (Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poets). He died in 1980 (Jisho 4), after submitting his last poem to the "Wakeikazuchisha Utaawase" on March 15 of the following year. His style of poetry is straightforward but profound. His family anthology includes the "Hindoshu" and his anthology "Shui Kokin" (lost), and as a calligrapher he preserves the originals of Imakigire's "Kokinshu" and Futarasan's "Gosenshu", as well as Jubokudo's "Saiyosho".

[Shinichiro Kawakami]

Only the water of the valley, beating rocks, comes to the village of Miyamabe, unknown in summer.

"Shigemi Komatsu's Later Selected Collection of Japanese Poetry: School Book and Research" (1961, Seimi Shobo)

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平安末期の歌人、能書家。父は正二位大納言藤原忠教(ただのり)、母は源俊明(としあきら)の女(むすめ)。正三位参議に至る。崇徳(すとく)院近臣歌人として『久安(きゅうあん)百首』などに加わったが、保元(ほうげん)の乱後常陸(ひたち)国（茨城県）に流され、出家して観蓮(かんれん)と号した。1162年（応保2）赦(ゆる)されて帰京、のち高野に隠棲(いんせい)したが、和歌活動は続け、77年（治承1）守覚法親王(しゅかくほっしんのう)に『古今集』を講述、『古今集註(ちゅう)』を著した。翌年3月15日「別雷(わけいかずち)社歌合」への出詠を最後として80年（治承4）までに没。歌風は素直だが味わいが深い。家集に『貧道(ひんどう)集』、撰集(せんしゅう)に『拾遺(しゅうい)古今』（散逸）があるほか、能書家として今城切(いまきぎれ)『古今集』、二荒山(ふたらさん)本『後撰(ごせん)集』など真跡を存し、また、入木道(じゅぼくどう)の書『才葉(さいよう)抄』がある。

［川上新一郎］

　岩たたく谷の水のみおとづれて夏にしられぬみやまべの里

『小松茂美著『後撰和歌集　校本と研究』（1961・誠美書房）』

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