Sosei

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Sosei, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Sosei, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

Sosei (素性 or 素性法師, c. 816910) was a Japanese waka poet and Buddhist priest. He is reckoned as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and one of his poems was included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu. His father Henjo was also a waka poet and monk.

Sosei entered religious life together with his father after the death of Emperor Nimmyō in 850.

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