Fujiwara no Sadanobu

He is said to have been a very fast and graceful writer, and that he copied the entire Issaikyo, the body of all Buddhist literature, in 23 years.

[4] The Tsurayuki-shū itself is part of a larger series of poems called the Anthology of Thirty-Six Poets(Nishi Honganji Sanjurokunin-shu), a compilation of poetry from the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry given to a Hongan-ji temple by Emperor Go-Nara in Tenmon 18.

[2] His calligraphy is surprisingly modern for 12th-century Japan, decorating his paper with natural motifs like pampas grass, butterflies, and maple leaves.

[5] Poem anthologies were given as gifts in the Heian period, so great effort was taken to be aesthetically refined.

[6] The Ishiyama-gire is composed of waka short poems, that sometimes deal with death and departure.