Sone no Yoshitada

Yoshitada (dates unknown – probably born shortly before 930 and died in the early years of the eleventh century), was active as a poet in the last quarter of the tenth century. He spent his career in provincial service and, in his lifetime, was regarded as an inferior poet. In fact, his style and conception were simply ahead of their time and so, after his death, his work became celebrated for its freshness and vitality and was increasingly represented in imperial anthologies.

In the Japan 2001 Waka, the following poems are by Yoshitada:

GSIS I: 42
GSIS III: 169
GSIS III: 204
GSIS III: 220
GSIS III: 227
GSIS IV: 273
GSIS VI: 421
SKS I: 5
SKS II: 76
SKS II: 78
SKS II: 81
SKS III: 82
SKS III: 110
SKS III: 118
SKS III: 129
SKS III: 133
SKS IV: 140
SKS IV: 141
SKS IV: 160
SKS VII: 230
SKS VIII: 247
SKS IX: 318
SKS X: 385

'Simply moving and elegant'