Sugawara no Fumitoki

• • Period: Heian Period
  • Occupation: Poet
  • Family: Sugawara no Michizane (grandfather)
    
  • Birth: –
  • Death: –

Sugawara no Fumitoki

Sugawara no Fumitoki (菅原 文時) was the son of Sugawara no Michizane and had a poem in the Wakan rōeishū which went as follows:

‘Peach and Plum Blossoms do not speak.
How many springs have come and gone?
Spring mists leave no trace.
Gone like those who once lived her.’¹

Footnotes

1. Yoda, H. and Alt, M. (2016) “Japandemonium: Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopaedia of Toriyama Sekien.”. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.

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