Fushimi-in no Shinsaishō
Fushimi-in no Shinsaishō (伏見院新宰相) (fl. 1288–1317) was a Japanese waka poet of the Kamakura period.
Biography[edit]
Fushimi-in no Shinsaishō was the daughter of Yamamomo Chikatada[1] (楊梅親忠, real name Fujiwara no Tsunetada 藤原経忠[1]) and sister of Yamamomo Kaneyuki.[1] Her year of birth is unknown.[1]
According to the Nakatsukasa-no-naishi Nikki,[1] she served Emperor Fushimi from his time as crown prince (春宮).[1] According to the Nakatsukasa-no-naishi Nikki[1] and Fushimi-tennō Shinki (伏見天皇宸記),[1] on the 25th day of the twelfth month of Kōan 10 (29 January 1288 in the Julian calendar),[1] after his senso (ja),[1] during the imperial procession to Kitayamadono (北山殿)[1] she and other women of the court such as Minamoto no Shinshi (源親子)[1] took part in an utakai (poetic gathering) to compose poems of praise.[1] According to the Go-Fukakusa-in Shinki (後深草院宸記) included in the Gosokui Burui (御即位部類), on the 15th day of the third month of the following year (17 April 1289) she served at the enthronement ceremony.[1]
Before the establishment of the Kyōgoku School she was already in the service of Emperor Fushimi,[1] and after that school was established she took part in the majority of their uta-awase poetic gatherings,[1] including the Sendō Gojū-ban Uta-awase (仙洞五十番歌合)[1] and the Eifuku Mon'in Uta-awase (永福門院歌合),[1] becoming an influential poet in the Kyōgoku School.[1]
She mourned the death of Emperor Fushimi in Bunpō 1 (1317),[1] with a lament of hers being included in the aishōka book of the Shoku-Senzai Wakashū,[1] but it appears she herself died shortly thereafter.[1] The year of her death is unknown.[1] Thirteen of her poems were included in each of the Gyokuyō Wakashū[1] and Fūga Wakashū,[1] and a total of four of her poems were included in the imperial anthologies Shoku-Senzai Wakashū and Shin-Shūi Wakashū.[1] In his article on her for the Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten, Shūichi Fukuda called her poetic style a moderate Kyōgoku style.[1]
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Works cited[edit]
- Fukuda, Shūichi (1983). "Fushimi-in no Shinsaishō" 伏見院新宰相. Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 5. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 259. OCLC 11917421.