Nijō Tameyo

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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.

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

In 1303,

As a result of the accession of

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

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

Works cited

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