Fujiwara no Kintō

Fujiwara no Kintō (藤原 公任, 966 – February 4, 1041), also known as Shijō-dainagon, was a Japanese poet, admired by his contemporaries [1] and a court bureaucrat of the Heian period.

[2] An exemplary calligrapher and poet, he is mentioned in works by Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shōnagon and in a number of other major chronicles and texts.

Kintō wrote a great many poems, as well as many poetry anthologies including the Shūi Wakashū and the Wakan rōeishū.

For a complete translation and study of the Wakan rōeishū, see J. Thomas Rimer and Jonathan Chaves, JAPANESE AND CHINESE POEMS TO SING, Columbia University Press, 1997.

This book was the winner of the 1998 US-Japan Friendship Commission Prize for best translation of a work of Japanese literature.

Fujiwara no Kintō by Kikuchi Yōsai
Anthology of customs, ceremony rules. and political systems (KOKUZAN SHO), Ms. by author himself. Autograph of Fujiwara no Kintō
Poems from the anthology Wakan rōeishū , Text by Fujiwara no Kintō, Calligrapher is unknown early 12th century