Fujiwara no Yoritada

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Fujiwara no Yoritada (藤原 頼忠; 924 - 989), the second son of Saneyori, was a kugyo (high-ranked Japanese noble) who served as regent. His poet son Fujiwara no Kintō compiled the Shūi Wakashū, and also a collection of Chinese verse and prose (~600 selections) and 25 Japanese poems in his Wakan Rōeishū, a widely-admired collection that helped spread the influence of Chinese culture (and especially the poetry of Bai Juyi) in the Japanese Imperial court. Kinto's collection would be imitated by a successor, Fujiwara no Mototoshi's Shinsen Rōeishū Kinto also wrote an influential critical guide to incorporating Bai Juyi's poetic techniques (and more generally, T'ang dynasty poetry) into Japanese poetry called Shinsen Zuinō ("The Essence of Poetry Newly Selected").

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• pg. 483 and 181-183 of Japanese Court Poetry, Earl Miner, Robert H. Brower. 1961, Stanford University Press, LCCN 61-10925