Fujiwara no Kanesuke

Fujiwara no Kanesuke (藤原兼輔, 877–933), also known as the Riverbank Middle Counselor (堤中納言, Tsutsumi Chūnagon),[1]: 137  was a middle Heian-period waka poet and Japanese nobleman.

His great-granddaughter was Murasaki Shikibu, author of the well-known monogatari the Tale of Genji.

The passage goes, "...as clear as a father's understanding may be in all other matters, love blinds him when it comes to his own child.

"[3] One of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu: みかの原わきて流るるいづみ川     いつ見きとてか恋しかるらむ mika no hara wakite nagaruru Izumi-gawaitsu miki tote ka koishikaruranWhen was it I got my first glimpse?

Like the Moor of Jars divided by the Izumi river I am split in two—so deep my longing for you.