Kiyohara no Fukayabu

25/02/2023| Eli| 0 Comment| 3:10 pm

- Period: Heian Period
- Occupation: Waka Poet,
- Family: Kiyohara no Motosuke (grand-son) Sei Shonagon (great-granddaughter) Prince Toneri (ancestor)
- Birth: fl.9th/10th Century
- Death:

Kiyohara no Fukayabu

Kiyohara no Fukayabu (清原深養父) was a poet who flourished around the 9th and 10th centuries. He was a descendant of Prince Toneri, grandfather of Motosuke and the great-grandfather of Sei Shonagon.

Fujiwara no Kiyosuke, a late Heian poetic critic, rated him as a first class poet as good as those listed in the 36 Poetic Geniuses.

We can find 41 of his poems in the Imperial Anthologies, 17 of them in the Kokinshū. One of his poems (No.36) can be found in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu and goes as follows:¹

Japanese text²	Romanized Japanese¹	English translation¹
夏の夜はまだ宵ながら明けぬるを雲のいづくに月やどるらむ	Natsu no yo wa mada yoi nagara akenuru o kumo no izuko ni tsuki yadoruran	On this summer night when twilight has so quickly become the dawn, where is the moon at rest among the clouds?

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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