Ono no Michikaze

He provided highly distinguished calligraphic services for three emperors during his career: Daigo (r. 897–930), Suzaku (r. 930–946) and Murakami (r. 946–967).

Michikaze's fame permitted him to serve, at the age of twenty-seven, in the Seiryoden, the residential quarters of the imperial court.

One of the well-known works ascribed without much evidence to Michikaze is a draft for an inscription on a byoubu (Japanese folding screen) now mounted as a handscroll in the Tokyo Imperial Household collection.

It was executed in semi-cursive script (gyōsho), and consisted of ten poems by Michikaze's contemporary Oe no Asatsuna.

This story made him famous during the Edo period and earned him his place on the willow set in Hanafuda cards.