Sone no Yoshitada

Sone no Yoshitada (曾禰好忠) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period.

His exact dates of birth and death are unknown[1][2][3][4] but he flourished in the second half of the tenth century.

[1] He was one of the Thirty-six Immortals of Poetry[2][4] and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

[1][2][3][4][5] He was known as an eccentric individual[1][2] with numerous anecdotes told about him.

[2][5] He was not well regarded in his own time but later was recognized as a highly innovative poet,[1][4] with roughly 90 of his poems appearing in imperial anthologies.