Dōin

Japanese waka poet
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroJapanese waka poet
PlacesJapan
wasPoet
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Religion:Buddhism
Birth1090
Death1182 (aged 92 years)
The details

Biography

Priest Dōin (道因法師, Dōin-hōshi), from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

Dōin (道因, 1090 — c. 1179; given name Fujiwara no Atsuyori) was a Japanese waka poet of the late-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, and forty-one of his poems were included in imperial collections.

Biography

He was born in 1090. His given name was Fujiwara no Atsuyori.

He served as Lieutenant of the Stables of the Left. He entered religion in 1172.

He died in around 1179.

Poetry

Forty-one of his poems were included in imperial anthologies from the Senzai Wakashū on.

The following poem by him was included as No. 82 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:

Japanese textRomanized JapaneseEnglish translation
思ひわび
さても命は
あるものを
憂きにたへぬは
涙なりけり
Omoi-wabi
sate mo inochi wa
aru monowo
uki ni taenu wa
namida nari keri
Despite this suffering
I somehow stay alive
yet with all this pain
of loving you
I cannot stop my sadness
nor the tears that flow.

His private collections have not survived.

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