Utsunomiya Yoritsuna
Utsunomiya Yoritsuna was a Japanese samurai and waka poet of the early Kamakura period.
His father was Utsunomiya Naritsuna. He married a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa.
After entering Buddhist orders, he took the name Renshō, and was also known as Ogura Nyūdō.Poetry
He was a close friend of Fujiwara no Teika and his daughter married Teika's son Tameie. He is also said to have commissioned Teika's compilation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. The collection was originally prepared to decorate screens in Yoritsuna's Mt. Ogura residence in the Saga district of Kyoto.
He was the head of one of the chief poetic houses of the Kamakura period.
