Utsunomiya Yoritsuna (宇都宮頼綱) was a Japanese samurai and waka poet of the early Kamakura period.
Family
His father was Utsunomiya Naritsuna (宇都宮成綱). He married a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa.
After entering Buddhist orders, he took the name Renshō (蓮生), and was also known as Ogura Nyūdō (小倉入道, "the monk of Ogura").
Poetry
He was a close friend of Fujiwara no Teika and his daughter married Teika's son Tameie. He is also said to have commissioned Teika's compilation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. The collection was originally prepared (in a slightly different form to the present Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) to decorate screens (屏風歌, byōbu-uta, "screen-poems") in Yoritsuna's Mt. Ogura residence in the Saga district of Kyoto.
He was the head of one of the chief poetic houses of the Kamakura period.
References
- ^ Britannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten article "Utsunomiya Yoritsuna". 2007. Britannica Japan Co.
- ^ Digital Daijisen entry "Utsunomiya Yoritsuna". Shogakukan.
- Keene 1999 : 738 (note 28).
- ^ McMillan 2010 : xxv.
- Shinshu University Faculty of Arts Japanese Literature Course Outline. December 2009.
- Suzuki et al. 2009 : 2.
Bibliography
- Keene, Donald (1999). A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart — Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.
- McMillan, Peter (2010). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14399-8.
- Suzuki, Hideo; Yamaguchi, Shin'ichi; Yoda, Yasushi (2009). Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Tokyo: Bun'eidō. ISBN 978-4-578-10082-9.
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