Fujiwara no Tamekane


Fujiwara no Tamekane, also known as Kyōgoku Tamekane, was a poet, an official in the Imperial court of Emperor Fushimi, and a senior bureaucrat of the Kamakura shogunate.
Tamekane was the grandson of poet Fujiwara no Tameie.
In the Imperial Daijō-kan, he rose to the rank of Chūnagon and Dainagon.
In 1298, he was banished to Sado Island. Later, this exile was modified to banishment in Tosa province.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Kyōgoku Tamekane, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 30+ publications in 2 languages and 400+ library holdings.