Fujiwara no Sanekata

Fujiwara no Sanekata (藤原実方, died 998) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.

Sanekata was a great-grandson of Fujiwara no Tadahira, "and commander of the bodyguard.

[2] He was reportedly a lover of Sei Shōnagon,[1] and exchanged love poems with many women.

[2] Sixty-seven of his poems were included in imperial anthologies from the Shūi Wakashū on,[1][2] and he was listed as one of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.

51 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: A private collection of his poetry, the Sanekata-shū (実方集), survives.