Saionji Kintsune (西園寺公経, 1171 – 1244) was a waka poet and Japanese nobleman active in the early Kamakura period. He is designated as a member of the New Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry (新三十六歌仙, Shin Sanjūrokkasen).
He was also a major contributor to the Shinchokusen Wakashū anthology.
In 1222AD he was appointed as the Chancellor of the Realm and later entered in religion in 1231AD.[1]
In the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, he is called the Lay Buddhist Novice and former Chancellor of the Realm (入道前太政大臣, Nyudō Saki no Daijō-daijin). The ninety-sixth poem reads:
花さそふ嵐の庭の雪ならで ふりゆくものは我が身なりけり hana sasou arashi no niwa no yuki naradefuriyuku mono wa waga mi narikeri(Shinchokusen Wakashū 13:1054)
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