Fujiwara no Akiuji


Fujiwara no Akiuji was a Japanese nobleman and waka poet of the Kamakura period.

Life

Fujiwara no Akiuji was born in 1207. A member of the Northern Branch of the Fujiwara clan, he was the second son of and the younger brother of Fujiwara no Tomoie.
He reached the Junior Second Rank at court, and founded the Kamiyagawa lineage within the Rokujō branch of the Fujiwara clan. He is occasionally mentioned in the Azuma Kagami as a court envoy to Kantō.
He died on the eighth day of the eleventh month of Bun'ei 11.

Poetry

Akiuji was a central figure in the Kamakura waka poetic circle, and in Kyoto helped establish the anti- faction, along with his brother Tomoie and Fujiwara no Mitsutoshi. His poetry was a regular fixture in the uta-awase contests and other poetic gatherings organized by the members of this faction, but it was not highly appreciated.
His poems were included in the records of a large number of uta-awase, including the Kasuga Wakamiya-sha Uta-awase and the Munetaka-shinnō-ke Hyakugojū-ban Uta-awase, as well as in the Hōji On-hyakushu. His poems were also included in private anthologies that collected the works of Kamakura poets, including the Tōsen Waka Rokujō, the Genzon Waka Rokujō and the Un'yō Wakashū.
Eleven of his poems were included in imperial anthologies from the Shoku Gosenshū on. He left a personal collection, the Akiuji-shū,

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