Sakanoue no Korenori

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Period: Heian Period
Occupation: Waka Poet, Governor.
Family: Sakanoue no Mochiki (son)
Birth:
Death: 930AD

Sakanoue no Korenori

Sakanoue no Korenori (坂上是則) was a known waka poet who had a good career, and ended up with the position of Governor for the Province of Kaga.

His poetic legacy includes forty poem in Imperial Waka Anthologies, eight of them in the Kōkinshū. In addition he had a private collection of poetry. And is listed as one of the Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses. His son Sakanoue no Mochiki was known to have edited the Gosenshū. He died in 930AD.

One of his poems can be found in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poems, One Poet Each). His poem is the 31st in the anthology and reads:¹

Japanese text²	Romanized Japanese¹	English translation¹
朝ぼらけ有明の月とみるまでに吉野の里にふれる白雪	Asaborake ariake no tsuki to miru made ni Yoshino no sato ni fureru shirayuki	Beloved Yoshino - I was sure you were bathed in the moonlight of dawn, but it's a soft falling of snow that mantles you in white.

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.

Thirty Six Poetic Geniuses
Lady Ise * Yamabe no Akahito * Ariwara no Narihira * Ki no Tomonori * Sarumaru Taifu * Ono no Komachi * Fujiwara no Kanesuke * Fujiwara no Atsutada * Fujiwara no Toshiyuki * Minamoto no Muneyuki * Minamoto no Shitagō * Kiyohara no Motosuke * Sakanoue no Korenori * Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu * Fujiwara no Okikaze * Fujiwara no Asatada

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