Nijō Yoshimoto


Nijō Yoshimoto, son of regent Nijō Michihira, was a Japanese kugyō, waka poet, and renga master of the early Nanboku-chō period.
Yoshimoto's wife gave birth to Nijō Moroyoshi. With another woman, he had sons Nijō Morotsugu and Ichijō Tsunetsugu.

Career as government official

Yoshimoto held the regent position of kampaku three times, and that of sesshō twice.
Yoshimoto learned waka from Ton'a and renga from Gusai and Kyūsei. He regarded himself primarily as a waka poet; he authored several treatises on the subject. It is for renga that he is best known. By the age of thirty, he was regarded as an authority on the subject. He authored a number of books including:
The author of Masukagami is unknown, but it is believed that Nijō Yoshimoto had a hand in its writing. The book is a Japanese historical tale describing events understood to have occurred between 1368 and 1376.
His diary, Kuchi-ura, "gives considerable detail" of the Northern Court.