Fujiwara no Atsutaka

Fujiwara no Atsutaka (藤原 敦隆; 1060s–1120) was a Japanese nobleman and waka poet of the Heian period. His real name may have been Tachibana no Atsutaka.

Life

Fujiwara no Atsutaka was a son of the governor of Hizen Province, Fujiwara no Toshikiyo (藤原俊清).[1] His year of birth is unknown,[2] but the Chūyūki [ja]'s entry for the 27th day of the seventh month of Hōan 1 (22 August 1120 in the Julian calendar) says that he was in his fifties when he died earlier that same month.[1]

The Sonpi Bunmyaku does not mention a "Fujiwara no Atsutaka", but it includes a reference to "Mokunosuke Atsutaka" (木工助敦隆), son of "Tachibana no Toshikiyo" (橘俊清).[1] Atsutaka's court position was Mokunosuke (assistant director of the Mokuryō 木工寮),[2] and his father's name was the same, so it is believed that these two were the same individual.[1][a]

The Chūyūki records that he was assigned to the Mokunosuke post in Eichō 1 (1096).[1] He appears to have held this position until his death.[1]

According to the Chūyūki, Atsutaka died on the first day of the seventh month of Hōan 1 (27 July 1120).[2]

Descendants

His daughter married Minamoto no Toshiyori,[1] and from this union was born Shun'e.[1]

Poetry

He participated in the Sanka Goban Uta-awase (山家五番歌合) in Tennin 3 (1110).[2] Counting both "Tachibana no Atsutaka" and "Fujiwara no Atsutaka", his name appears in the surviving records of four uta-awase contests from this period.[1] None of his poems, however, were included in any of the court anthologies.[1]

He was also noted for his scholarship,[2] and compiled the 20-volume Ruiju Koshū (類聚古集), a thematically arranged collection of Man'yōshū poems.[2] Sixteen volumes of the work are extant.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ The Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus article on Atsutaka does not go into as much detail on sources, etc., but states that his real clan name was not Fujiwara but Tachibana.[3]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Nishimura 1983, p. 267.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Nishimura 1983, p. 267; Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus 2015.
  3. ^ Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus 2015.

Works cited

  • Nishimura, Kayoko (1983). "Fujiwara no Atsutaka" 藤原敦隆. Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 5. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 267. OCLC 11917421.
  • "Fujiwara no Atsutaka" 藤原敦隆. Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus (in Japanese). Kodansha. 2015. Retrieved 2018-09-06.