Saionji Kintsune

In this Japanese name, the surname is Saionji.

Saionji Kintsune in the Ogura Hyakunin isshu.

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.

Poetry

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 narade
furiyuku mono wa waga mi narikeri
(Shinchokusen Wakashū 13:1054)

See also

• Saionji family
• List of Daijō-daijin

External links

• E-text of his poems in Japanese.