Yoshinobu Onakatomi

A court poet in the mid-Heian period. One of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets. A son of Yoriki and father of Sukechika. He became the chief priest and deputy chief priest of Shinto. In 951 (Tenryaku 5), at the age of 31, he was chosen as one of the five Nashitsubo poets and participated in the compilation of the readings of the Manyoshu and the Gosenshu. He composed poems for such events as the "Palace Poetry Contest of the Fourth Year of the Reign of Tentoku" (960), the "Go Poetry Contest of En'yuin and Princess Shishi," the "Left Minister Yoritada's Senzai Contest," the "Palace Poetry Contest of the Second Year of the Kanwa Era," and the "Empress Dowager Senshi's Nadeshiko Contest." He also submitted poems for the Daijoe ceremony held by Emperors Reizei and En'yu, and was twice summoned to compose his own "family collections" by Emperors En'yu and Kazan. He responded to requests from such influential families as Saneyori, Kanemichi, and Kaneie, and was a poet who specialized in folding screen poems and ceremonial poems, rivaling Kiyohara Motosuke. However, the story in "Fukuro-soshi" where he was scolded by his father Yoriki for boasting about the quality of the poems of Prince Atsumi's son Nenohi (in the family of Prince Atsumi), symbolizes the strictness of the Onakatomi family's tradition of passing on the art of waka poetry. 124 of his poems were included in imperial anthologies such as "Shuishū".

[Goto Shoko]

Even the pines that are cut off from the tip of the tree are drawn to you from today onwards, and all ages will pass.

"Yamaguchi Hiroshi, 'Study of the Imperial Poetry Circle: Murakami, Reizei, and En'yucho' (1967, Ohfusha)" ▽ "Hosaka Miyako, 'Poets of the Onakatomi Clan' (1972, Musashino Shoin)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

平安中期の宮廷歌人。三十六歌仙の一人。頼基(よりもと)の男、輔親(すけちか)の父。祭主、神祇大副(じんぎたいふ)となる。951年（天暦5）、31歳のとき、梨壺(なしつぼ)の五人の一人に選ばれ、『万葉集』訓点、『後撰集(ごせんしゅう)』撰集作業に従った。「天徳(てんとく)四年内裏歌合(だいりうたあわせ)」（960）をはじめ、「円融院(えんゆういん)・資子(しし)内親王乱碁(らんご)歌合」「左大臣頼忠(よりただ)前栽合(せんざいあわせ)」「寛和(かんわ)二年内裏歌合」「皇太后詮子瞿麦合(せんしなでしこあわせ)」などに出詠、冷泉(れいぜい)、円融天皇の大嘗会(だいじょうえ)歌を詠進し、円融、花山(かざん)の両天皇から二度にわたり「家集」を召された。実頼(さねより)、兼通(かねみち)、兼家など権門の求めに応じ、屏風歌(びょうぶうた)、行事和歌の専門歌人として清原元輔(もとすけ)と双璧(そうへき)をうたわれたが、敦実(あつみ)親王家の子日(ねのひ)の歌のできばえを誇って父頼基にたしなめられた話（『袋草紙』）は、大中臣家の歌道相承の厳しさを象徴している。『拾遺集』以下の勅撰集に124首入集(にっしゅう)。

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　ちとせまでかぎれる松も今日よりは君にひかれてよろづ代や経む

『山口博著『王朝歌壇の研究　村上・冷泉・円融朝篇』（1967・桜楓社）』▽『保坂都著『大中臣家の歌人群』（1972・武蔵野書院）』

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