toshinari

Updated: May 6, 2025

The littérateurs of his era looked up to him as the arbiter elegantiarum, especially in the domain of Japanese versification. Even more renown attached to Fujiwara no Toshinari, whose nom de plume was Shunzei, and who earned the title of the "Matchless Master." His son, Sadaiye, was well-nigh equally famous under the name of Teika.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era