Mitsune Oshikouchi - The Three of Oshikouchi

A poet of the early Heian period. Compiler of the Kokin Wakashu. One of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets. He served as a local official, such as Kai Gon no Shosakan in 894 (Kanpei 6), Tanba Gon no Daisakan in 907 (Engi 7), and Izumi Gon no Jo. He left behind a poem in "Suzakuin Ominae Shiawase" in 898 (Shotai 1), but it was the Kokinshu that made him famous. He collected 60 poems, second only to Ki no Tsurayuki. In 907, during Emperor Uda's visit to Oigawa, he was the only one to present two poems for each of eight of the nine themes. His career after "Kokinshu" was spectacular, and he appeared in such events as "Teijiin no Utaawase" (Poetry Contest at the Teishi-in Temple) in 913, and he was also well-known as a poet of folding screen poems, and was praised on a par with Tsurayuki. His fame as a composer of poems about famous places suggests that he excelled in improvisational poetry. He excelled in poems about the four seasons, was witty, and was characterized by his ability to grasp events subjectively and express them in simple words.

If I were to pick them with my heart in mind, I would pick them, the white chrysanthemums that are left confused by the first frost [Yasuhiko Kikuchi]

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平安前期の歌人。『古今和歌集』撰者(せんじゃ)。三十六歌仙の一人。894年（寛平6）甲斐権少目(かいのごんのしょうさかん)、907年（延喜7）丹波権大目(たんばのごんのだいさかん)、和泉権掾(いずみのごんのじょう)など地方官を歴任。早く898年（昌泰1）の「朱雀院女郎花合(すざくいんおみなえしあわせ)」に歌を残すが、名をなすのは『古今集』によってである。入集(にっしゅう)60首は紀貫之(つらゆき)に次ぐ第2位。907年宇多(うだ)法皇の大井川御幸では、9題中8題につき、彼のみ2首ずつを献じる。『古今集』以後の活躍は華々しく、913年の「亭子院歌合(ていじいんのうたあわせ)」などに出詠、また屏風歌(びょうぶうた)歌人として令名高く、貫之と並び称された。名所歌の作者としても名があるのは、即興的な歌才に優れていたことをうかがわせる。四季歌を得意とし、機知に富み、事象を主観的に把握して、平明なことばで表現するところに躬恒の特長がある。

　心あてに折らばや折らむ初霜の置きまどはせる白菊の花
［菊地靖彦］

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