Fujiwara no Kintō (藤原公任) (966-1041), also known as Shijō-dainagon, was a poet admired by his contemporaries [1] and a court bureaucrat of the Heian period. His father was the regent Fujiwara no Yoritada and his son Fujiwara no Sadayori[2]. An exemplary calligrapher and poet, he is given mention in works by Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shōnagon and a number of other major chronicles and texts.
Over the course of his life, Kintō published a great many poems, as well as many poetry anthologies including the Shūi Wakashū and the Wakan rōeishū. He also established the grouping of "Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses" or "Thirty-six Poetry Immortals", the "Anthology of Poems by the Thirty-Six Poets" (Sanjūrokkasen), frequently seen in Ukiyo-e art; he first assembled in 1009-1011 which Fujiwara no Teika would later recommend to the study to aspiring poets. The anthology:
He was also apparently vital in the compilation of Emperor Kazan's Shūi Wakashū (in which 15 of his poems appear)[3], having compiled between 996 and 999 the original skeleton for it, a collection called Shuisho. [4]
In addition, his poetry criticism is also of note: reputedly, when Kinto criticized Fujiwara no Nagayoshi (probably his Waka Kuhon, "Nine Grades of Waka" [5]), Nagayoshi became ill and died.
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