Mibu no Tadamine explained

was an early Heian waka poet of the court (active 898–920), and a member of the sanjūrokkasen or Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.[1] His son Mibu no Tadami was also a distinguished poet.

He emerged as an important poet in an early uta-awase or poetry match,, and was involved in many of the poetic activities of the day, including a position as a compiler of the Kokin Wakashū.[2] A collection of his personal poems appeared as the Tadamine shū, though more than half of it is not certainly canon. He is also famous for the, an influential work of Heian criticism.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rodd . Laurel Rasplica . Kokinshū: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern . Henkenius . Mary Catherine . 1996 . Cheng & Tsui . 978-0-88727-249-3 . 13 . en.
  2. Book: Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century . 1999 . Columbia University Press . 978-0-231-11441-7 . 239–242 . en.