Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry explained

The are a group of Japanese poets of the Asuka, Nara, and Heian periods selected by Fujiwara no Kintō as exemplars of Japanese poetic ability. The oldest surviving collection of the 36 poets' works is Nishi Honganji Sanju-rokunin Kashu ("Nishi Honganji 36 poets collection") of 1113. Similar groups of Japanese poets include the Kamakura period, composed by court ladies exclusively, and the, or Thirty-Six Heian-era Immortals of Poetry, selected by (1107–1165). This list superseded an older group called the Six Immortals of Poetry.

Sets of portraits (essentially imaginary) of the group were popular in Japanese painting and later woodblock prints, and often hung in temples.

Kintō's Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry

  1. Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
                                  1. Ki no Tsurayuki Ōshikōchi Mitsune Lady Ise Ōtomo no Yakamochi Yamabe no Akahito Ariwara no Narihira Henjō Sosei Ki no Tomonori Sarumaru no Taifu Ono no Komachi Fujiwara no Kanesuke Fujiwara no Asatada Fujiwara no Atsutada Fujiwara no Takamitsu Minamoto no Kintada Mibu no Tadamine
      1. Saigū no Nyōgo Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
  2. Minamoto no Shigeyuki
        1. Minamoto no Muneyuki Minamoto no Saneakira Fujiwara no Kiyotada Minamoto no Shitagō
    1. Fujiwara no Okikaze Kiyohara no Motosuke
  3. Sakanoue no Korenori
  4. Fujiwara no Motozane
            1. Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu Fujiwara no Nakafumi Taira no Kanemori Mibu no Tadami Kodai no Kimi Nakatsukasa

Thirty-Six Female Immortals of Poetry

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, composed in the Kamakura period, refers to thirty-six female immortals of poetry:[1]

  1. Ono no Komachi
  2. Ise
  3. Nakatsukasa
  4. Kishi Joō
  5. Ukon
  6. Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha
  7. Uma no Naishi
  8. Akazome Emon
  9. Izumi Shikibu
  10. Kodai no Kimi
  11. Murasaki Shikibu
  12. Koshikibu no Naishi
  13. Ise no Taifu
  14. Sei Shōnagon
  15. Daini no Sanmi
  16. Takashina no Kishi
  17. Yūshi Naishinnō-ke no Kii
  18. Sagami
  19. Shikishi Naishinnō
  20. Kunai-kyō
  21. Suō no Naishi
  22. Fujiwara no Toshinari no Musume
  23. Taikenmon'in no Horikawa
  24. Gishūmon'in no Tango
  25. Kayōmon'in no Echizen
  26. Nijōin no Sanuki
  27. Kojijū
  28. Go-Toba-in no Shimotsuke
  29. Ben no Naishi
  30. Gofukakusa-in no shōshō no naishi
  31. Inpumon'in no Tayū
  32. Tsuchimikado In no Kosaishō
  33. Hachijō-in Takakura
  34. Fujiwara no Chikako
  35. Shikikenmon'in no Mikushige
  36. Sōhekimon'in no Shōshō

New Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry

There are at least two groups of Japanese poets called :

The term usually refers to the second:[2]

  1. Emperor Go-Toba
  2. Emperor Tsuchimikado
  3. Emperor Juntoku
  4. Emperor Go-Saga
  5. Prince Masanari of Rokujō-no-Miya
  6. Prince Munetaka of Kamakura-no-Miya
  7. Prince Dōjonyūdō
  8. Princess Shikishi
  9. Kujō Yoshitsune
  10. Kujō Michiie
  11. Saionji Kintsune
  12. Koga Michiteru
  13. Saionji Saneuji
  14. Minamoto no Sanetomo
  15. Kujō Motoie
  16. Fujiwara no Ieyoshi
  17. Jien
  18. Gyōi
  19. Minamoto no Michitomo (Horikawa Michitomo)
  20. Fujiwara no Sadaie
  21. Hachijō-in Takakura
  22. Shunzei's Daughter
  23. Go-Toba-in Kunaikyō
  24. Sōhekimon'in no Shōshō
  25. Fujiwara no Tameie
  26. Asukai Masatsune
  27. Fujiwara no Ietaka
  28. Fujiwara no Tomoie
  29. Fujiwara no Ariie
  30. Hamuro Mitsutoshi
  31. Fujiwara no Nobuzane
  32. Minamoto no Tomochika
  33. Fujiwara no Takasuke
  34. Minamoto no Ienaga
  35. Kamo no Chōmei
  36. Fujiwara no Hideyoshi

See also

References

  1. Web site: 女房三十六歌仙. www.asahi-net.or.jp.
  2. Web site: 新三十六歌仙(新三十六人撰). www.asahi-net.or.jp.

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