Fujiwara no Sadakata

Fujiwara no Sadakata (藤原定方, 873 – 6 September 932), also known as the Minister of the Right of Sanjō (三条右大臣, Sanjō Udaijin), was a Japanese poet and courtier.

The poet Fujiwara no Kanesuke was his cousin and son-in-law and his son Asatada was also a poet.

He was appointed as Udajin of the Third Ward and we see him in storied from the Tales of Yamato.

[1] One of his poems is included in Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: 名にし負はば逢坂山のさねかづら     人に知られでくるよしもがな na ni shi owaba Ōsaka-yama no sanekazurahito ni shirarede kuru yoshi mogana(Gosen Wakashū)In English, this poem would read as such: "If they bear such a name: On Mount Osaka, with the scarlet ivy that tells you to "Come and sleep!"

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