Dōin

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Japanese waka poet

Places

Japan

was

Poet

Work field

Literature

Gender

Male

Religion(s):

Buddhism

Birth

1090

Death

1182

Age

92 years

The details (from wikipedia)

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 text	Romanized Japanese	English 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.