Fujiwara no Michinobu

Fujiwara no Michinobu (藤原道信, 972–994) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.

He produced a private waka collection, the Michinobu-shū.

Born in 972, he was a son of Tamemitsu and adopted by the latter's brother Kaneie.

[1][2] Forty-eight of his poems were included in imperial anthologies, and he was listed as one of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.

52 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: A private collection of his poems, the Michinobu-shū (道信集), survives.

Fujiwara no Michinobu, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu .
Katsushika Hokusai , The Poem of Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason , 1839, Princeton University Art Museum , depicting the poem transcribed in the cartouche at upper right:
Though I know full well
That the night will come again,
E'en when day has dawned;
Yet, in truth, I hate the sight,
Of the morning's coming light.