Fun’ya no Yasuhide

• • Period: Heian Period
  • Occupation: Waka Poet, Provincial Governor, Director of the Imperial Wardrobe
  • Family: Fun’ya no Asayasu (son)
  • Birth: 9th Century
  • Death: –

Fun’ya no Yasuhide

Fun’ya no Yasuhide (文屋 康秀), also known as Bun’ya no Yasuhide, was a Japanese poet who lived during the second half of the 9th century. He was the father of Fun’ya no Asayasu.

For a time he served as a provisional governor, later becoming the Second Director of the Imperial Wardrobe in 879. Later he would be dubbed one of the Six Poetic Geniuses.

He finds himself mentioned in both the Chinese and Japanese preface of the Kokinshū and 5 of his poems can also be found inside it. 1 other of his poems can also be found in the Imperial Waka Anthologies.

One poem (No.22) is also featured in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu and goes as follows:¹

Footnotes

1. MacMillan, P. (2018) ”One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse”. St. Ives: Penguin Classics.
2. Suzuki, H. et al. (1997) ”Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu”. Tokyo: Bun’eidō.

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