Utsunomiya Yoritsuna (宇都宮頼綱) was a Japanese samurai and waka poet of the early Kamakura period. [1] [2]
His father was Utsunomiya Naritsuna (宇都宮成綱). [1] He married a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa. [1] [2]
After entering Buddhist orders, he took the name Renshō (蓮生), [1] [2] and was also known as Ogura Nyūdō (小倉入道, "the monk of Ogura"). [1]
He was a close friend of Fujiwara no Teika [1] [2] and his daughter married Teika's son Tameie. [3] [4] He is also said to have commissioned Teika's compilation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. [4] [5] The collection was originally prepared (in a slightly different form to the present Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) to decorate screens (屏風歌, byōbu-uta, "screen-poems") in Yoritsuna's Mt. Ogura residence in the Saga district of Kyoto. [4] [6]
He was the head of one of the chief poetic houses of the Kamakura period. [4]
Utsunomiya Yoritsuna (宇都宮頼綱) was a Japanese samurai and waka poet of the early Kamakura period. [1] [2]
His father was Utsunomiya Naritsuna (宇都宮成綱). [1] He married a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa. [1] [2]
After entering Buddhist orders, he took the name Renshō (蓮生), [1] [2] and was also known as Ogura Nyūdō (小倉入道, "the monk of Ogura"). [1]
He was a close friend of Fujiwara no Teika [1] [2] and his daughter married Teika's son Tameie. [3] [4] He is also said to have commissioned Teika's compilation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. [4] [5] The collection was originally prepared (in a slightly different form to the present Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) to decorate screens (屏風歌, byōbu-uta, "screen-poems") in Yoritsuna's Mt. Ogura residence in the Saga district of Kyoto. [4] [6]
He was the head of one of the chief poetic houses of the Kamakura period. [4]