Nijō Tameyo

Nijō Tameyo (二条為世, 1250–1338), also known as Fujiwara no Tameyo (藤原為世), was a Japanese courtier and waka poet of the late Kamakura period and the early Nanboku-chō period. His Dharma name was Myōshaku (明釈).

Biography

Ancestry, birth and early life

Nijō Tameyo was born in 1250.[1] His father was Fujiwara no Tameuji,[2] and his mother was a daughter of Asukai Norisada [ja].[3] He was Tameuji's eldest son,[4] a grandson of Fujiwara no Tameie,[4] and a great-grandson of Fujiwara no Teika.[5]

Political career

He was a supporter of the Daikakuji line [ja], descendants of Emperor Kameyama, in the succession disputes of the late Kamakura period.[2] At the height of his political career, he had attained the Senior Second Rank,[6] and held the position of Provisional Major Counselor (gon-dainagon).[7]

Later life and death

He entered Buddhist orders in 1329,[3] acquiring the Dharma name Myōshaku.[6] He died on 18 September 1338,[8] or the fifth day of the eighth month of Engen 3 by Southern Court reckoning, Ryakuō 1 by Northern Court reckoning.[8]

Poetry

Tameyo learned waka composition from his father Tameuji and his grandfather Tameie, who between them had compiled four of the imperial anthologies.[4]

In 1303,[9] on the command of Retired Emperor Go-Uda,[9] Tameyo compiled the Shin Gosen Wakashū.[7] In 1320,[7] also under the direction of Retired Emperor Go-Uda,[7] he compiled the Shoku Senzai Wakashū.[9]

As a result of the accession of Emperor Hanazono, a member of the rival Jimyō-in line [ja], to the throne in 1308,[8] he had a bitter dispute with his cousin Kyōgoku Tamekane over the compilation of the next imperial anthology,[7] a dispute he lost.[10] He attacked Tamekane in his Enkei Ryōkyō Sochin-jō [ja].[11]

He was also known as a teacher of waka composition,[1] and his students included the so-called "Four Heavenly Kings of Waka":[1] Jōben (浄弁), Kenkō, Ton'a and Keiun (慶運).[1]

He produced a privately-compiled anthology, the Shoku Gen'yō-shū (続現葉集),[8] and produced the poetic theory book Waka Teikin (和歌庭訓).[9] He left a personal anthology, the Tameyo-shū.[4]

177 of his poems are included in imperial collections from the Shoku Shūi Wakashū on.[11]

He was also a composer of renga, and some of his work was included in the Tsukuba-shū.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Misumi 1994; Inoue 1994.
  2. ^ a b Misumi 1994; Inoue 1994; Mypaedia 1996.
  3. ^ a b Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e Inoue 1994.
  5. ^ Bijutsu Jinmei Jiten 2016.
  6. ^ a b Inoue 1994; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.
  7. ^ a b c d e Misumi 1994; Inoue 1994; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014; Mypaedia 1996.
  8. ^ a b c d Misumi 1994.
  9. ^ a b c d Misumi 1994; Inoue 1994; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.
  10. ^ Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014; Mypaedia 1996.
  11. ^ a b Misumi 1994; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.

Works cited

  • "Nijō Tameyo" 二条為世. Bijutsu Jinmei Jiten (in Japanese). Shibunkaku. 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  • "Nijō Tameyo" 二条為世. Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten (in Japanese). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2014. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  • Inoue, Muneo (1994). "Fujiwara no Tameyo" 二条為世. Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  • Misumi, Yōichi (1994). "Nijō Tameyo" 二条為世. Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun-sha. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  • Keene, Donald (1999) [1993]. A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart – Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (paperback ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.
  • "Nijō Tameyo" 二条為世. Mypaedia (in Japanese). Hitachi. 1996. Retrieved 2017-11-03.