Sone no Yoshitada
Sone no Yoshitada (曾禰好忠) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. His exact dates of birth and death are unknown[1] [2] [3] [4] but he flourished in the second half of the tenth century.[1] He was one of the Thirty-six Immortals of Poetry [2] [4] and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu .[1] [5]
Because he was a secretary (掾, jō) of Tango Province he is occasionally known by the nicknames Sotango (曾丹後, a combination of the first character of his name with the name of the province) and Sotan (曾丹, a combination of the first characters of both his name and the province).[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He was known as an eccentric individual[1] [2] with numerous anecdotes told about him.[2] [5] He was not well regarded in his own time but later was recognized as a highly innovative poet,[1] [4] with roughly 90 of his poems appearing in imperial anthologies.[3]
The following poem by him was No. 46 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu :
- 由良のとを
- 渡る舟人
- かぢをたえ
- 行くへも知らぬ
- 恋の道かな
- Yura no to wo
- wataru funa-bito
- kaji-wo tae
- yukue mo shiranu
- koi no michi kana
- Crossing the Straits of Yura
- the boatman lost the rudder.
- The boat's adrift
- not knowing where it goes.
- Is the course of love like this?
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c d e f McMillan 2010 : 139-140 (note 46).
- ^ a b c d e MyPedia article "Sone no Yoshitada". 2007. Hitachi Systems & Services.
- ^ a b c Britannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten article "Sone no Yoshitada". 2007. Britannica Japan Co.
- ^ a b c d Digital Daijisen entry "Sone no Yoshitada". Shogakukan.
- ^ a b c d Suzuki et al. 2009 : 60.
- ^ McMillan 2010 : 164.
- ^ McMillan 2010 : 48.
Bibliography
[edit ]- McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Suzuki Hideo, Yamaguchi Shin'ichi, Yoda Yasushi. 2009 (1st ed. 1997). Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Tokyo: Bun'eidō.
