Poetry Match at the Residence of the Palace Minister – 2^nd day of the Tenth Month, Gen’ei 1[i]

Topics

Showers

Lingering Chrysanthemums

Love

Poets of the Left	Poets of the Right
Lady Settsu, in service to the Empress[ii]	Lord Toshiyori[iii]
A Court Lady[iv]	Lord Akikuni[v]
Lady Shōshō Lord Toshiyori’s Daughter Court Lady in service at the Chancellor’s Residence[vi]	Lord Masakane[vii]
Lord Akinaka[viii]	Lord Michitsune[ix]
Lady Kazusa[x]	Lord Mototoshi[xi]
Lord Morotoshi[xii]	Lord Masamitsu[xiii]
Lord Sadanobu[xiv]	Lord Munekuni[xv]
Lord Morikata[xvi]	Lord Tadataka[xvii]
Lady Shinano Nagazane’s Daughter Court Lady in service at the Chancellor’s Residence[xviii]	Lord Nobutada[xix]
Lord Tadafusa[xx]	Lord Kanemasa[xxi]
Lord Toshitaka[xxii]	Lord Tokimasa[xxiii]
Lord Shigemoto[xxiv]	Lord Tamezane[xxv]

Judges

Lord Toshiyori

Lord Mototoshi

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[i] 内大臣家歌合　元永元年十月二日

[ii] Kōgōgū settsu no kimi皇后宮摂津公

[iii] 俊頼朝臣

[iv] Nyōbō女房: a sobriquet for the sponsor of the contest, Tadamichi.

[v] Akikuni ason顕国朝臣: Minamoto no Akikuni 源顕国 (1083-1121). The eldest son of Minamoto no Kunzane 源国信 (1069-1111); his mother was a daughter of Takashina no Yasunaka 高階泰仲. Like his father Akikuni served Emperor Horikawa and was eventually appointed Minor Captain in the Inner Palace Guards, Left Division and Supernumerary Assistant Master of the Empress Household Office, reaching Junior Fourth Rank, Upper Grade. He was active in the poetic circles of his time and has seven poems included in imperial anthologies, starting with Kin’yōshū.

[vi] Shōshō no kimi Toshiyori no musumi kanpaku-ke nyōbō少将公俊頼朝臣女　関白家女房

[vii] 雅兼朝臣

[viii] Akinaka ason 顕仲朝臣: Fujiwara no Akinaka 藤原顕仲 (1059-1129). The third son of Fujiwara no Sukenaka藤原資仲 (1021-1087); his mother was a daughter of Minamoto no Tsuneyori 源経頼 (985-1039). Akinaka was adopted by Fujiwara no Moto’ie 藤原基家 (1023-1093). He had a respectable court career for minor member of the Fujiwara house, ending as an Assistant Lieutenant in the Outer Palace Guards, Left Division at Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade. He participated in a number of poetic events around this time, and was one of the poets for the Horikawa hyakushu.

[ix] 道経朝臣

[x] Kazusa no kimi上総公 : little is known about this court lady—neither her dates nor her family background have been recorded. All that can be said with certainty is that she was in service to Horikawa’s empress, Atsuko (Tokushi) and was active in poetic events between 1096-1124.

[xi] 基俊朝臣

[xii] 師俊朝臣

[xiii] 雅光朝臣

[xiv] 定信朝臣

[xv] 宗国朝臣

[xvi] 盛方朝臣

[xvii] 忠隆朝臣

[xviii] 信濃公永実女　関白家女房

[xix] 信忠朝臣

[xx] 忠房朝臣

[xxi] 兼昌朝臣

[xxii] 俊隆朝臣

[xxiii] 時昌朝臣

[xxiv] 重基朝臣

[xxv] 為実朝臣