Nashitsubo no Gonin

Nashitsubo no Gonin

The Nashitsubo no Gonin (Five Men of the Pear Chamber – 梨壺の五人) was the term used in 951 for a group of five men who helped in compiling the Gosenshū.¹ These people were chosen specifically by Emperor Murakami and were additionally tasked to make a scholarly study of the Man’yōshū.²

They consisted of:

• Ki no Tokibumi
• Kiyohara no Motosuke
• Minamoto no Shitagō
• Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
• Sakanoue no Mochiki

Note from Eli: So far I have only been able to find depicitons of three of these men, see below:

Kiyohara Motosuke	Minamoto no Shitagō
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu

Footnotes

1. Louis Frederic, translated by Kathe Roth (2002) “Japan Encyclopedia”. London: Harvard University Press.

2. Kodansha. (1993) ”Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia”. Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd.

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