, also known as, was a Japanese waka poet of the late-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. He produced a private collection, the Rin'yō Wakashū, and was listed as one of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
His Buddhist name is also read Sun'e,[1] and he is also known by the name Tayū no Kimi.[1] [2]
He was born in 1113, the son of Minamoto no Toshiyori.[1] [2] [3] His maternal grandfather was Fujiwara no Atsutaka. He was tutored in waka composition by his father, but after the latter died he appears to have taken monastic orders in Tōdai-ji.[1] His exact date of death is uncertain,[1] [2] but it was likely around 1191.[3]
Eighty-three of his poems were included in imperial anthologies, and he was recognized as one of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.[3]
He was a poetic mentor to Kamo no Chōmei.[2] [3]
The following poem by him was included as No. 85 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:
| Japanese text[4] | Romanized Japanese[5] | English translation[6] |
夜もすがら もの思ふころは 明けやらで 閨のひまさへ つれなかりけり | Yomosugara mono-omou koro wa akeyarade neya no hima sae tsurenakarikeri | The only relief from the pain of waiting all night long for a lover who does not come would be the break of day, but even gaps in the shutters are too cruel to let in the light of dawn. |
He also left a private collection, the .[1] [2] [3]
. Donald Keene . A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart - Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century . . New York . 1999 . 978-0-231-11441-7 .