Fujiwara no Akihira (藤原 明衡; 989? – November 14, 1066) was a Japanese nobleman and kanshi poet of the Heian period.
Life
Fujiwara no Akihira was the second child of Fujiwara no Atsunobu. His mother was a daughter of 良峰英材, or possibly a daughter of Tachibana no Tsunehira [ja]. He was probably born around 989.
He studied under his father from a young age, and in Kankō 1 (1004 in the Gregorian calendar) enrolled in the Monjō-in [ja].
Among his children were Fujiwara no Atsumoto [ja] and Fujiwara no Atsumitsu.
According to the Chokusen Sakusha Burui (勅撰作者部類), he died on the 18th day of the tenth month in Jiryaku 2 (November 14, 1066). In his article on Akihira for the Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten, Shōsuke Ōsone [ja] suggests that he may have been 78 (by Japanese reckoning) at the time of his death.
Poetry
References
Citations
- Ōsone 1983, p. 266; Gotō 1994; Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus 2015.
- ^ Ōsone 1983, p. 266.
Works cited
- Ōsone, Shōsuke (1983). "Fujiwara no Akihira" 藤原明衡. Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 5. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 266. OCLC 11917421.
- Gotō, Akio (1994). "Fujiwara no Akihira" 藤原明衡. Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun-sha. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
- "Fujiwara no Akihira" 藤原明衡. Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus (in Japanese). Kodansha. 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-31.