Asukai Masaaki (飛鳥井雅章, 1611–1679) was a Japanese courtier and waka poet of the early Edo period.
[1] His two older brothers had both been banished by imperial command (ja) on the fourth day of the seventh month of 1609,[1] but the younger of the two, Masanori (雅宣), was later pardoned,[1] and raised the young Masaaki.
[1] He was a prominent poet at the court of retired emperor Go-Mizunoo,[1] and from the end of the Kan'ei era in 1644 until a year before his death more than three decades later he virtually monopolized the setting of the topics of poetic gatherings at the imperial palace.
[1] This position required him to travel back and forth between Kyoto and Kantō, and as a result he had many disciples in the eastern regions, especially among the warrior class.
[1] At the height of his political career, he had attained the Junior First Rank,[1] and held the position of Provisional Major Counselor (gon-dainagon).