- Source: Fujiwara no Kanesuke
Fujiwara no Kanesuke (藤原兼輔, 877–933), also known as the Riverbank Middle Counselor (堤中納言, Tsutsumi Chūnagon),: 137 was a middle Heian-period waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.
His great-granddaughter was Murasaki Shikibu, author of the well-known monogatari the Tale of Genji.
His father was Fujiwara no Toshimoto.
Poetry
Kanesuke's poems are included in several imperial poetry anthologies, including Kokin Wakashū and Gosen Wakashū. A personal poetry collection known as the Kanesuke-shū also remains.
The Tale of Heike contains "an almost direct quotation" of his poem in the Gosenshū (no. 1102). The passage goes, "...as clear as a father's understanding may be in all other matters, love blinds him when it comes to his own child."
One of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu:
みかの原わきて流るるいづみ川 いつ見きとてか恋しかるらむ
mika no hara wakite nagaruru Izumi-gawaitsu miki tote ka koishikaruranWhen was it I got my first glimpse? Like the Moor of Jars divided by the Izumi river I am split in two—so deep my longing for you.: 29 (Shin Kokin Wakashū 11:996)
See also
Tsutsumi Chūnagon Monogatari
References
External links
E-text of his poems in Japanese