Sagami (相模, dates unknown, but born c. 1000), also known as Oto-jijū (乙侍従), was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. One of her poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. She produced a private collection, the Sagami-shū.
Biography
editSagami's dates are unknown,[1] but she was probably born around 1000.[2] Her real name was Oto-jijū.[3]
Her paternal ancestry is unknown,[4] but she was supposedly a daughter of Minamoto no Yorimitsu.[5] The fourteenth-century work Chokusen Sakusha Burui (勅撰作者部類) claims Yorimitsu was her father,[4] but the Kin'yōshū includes a renga by Yorimitsu and "Sagami's mother" (相模母), so it is also possible he was her adoptive father.[4] Her mother was a daughter of Yoshishige no Yasuaki, governor of Noto (前能登守慶滋保章).[4]
She was married to Ōe no Kin'yori (大江公資, also read Kinsuke[6]), during his tenure as the governor of Sagami Province,[7] from which her nickname is derived.[4] She served Prince Shūshi (脩子内親王, Shūshi-naishinnō), one of the sons of Emperor Ichijō.[6]
Poetry
edit109 of her poems were included in imperial anthologies starting with the Goshūi Wakashū.[5] She was included in the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.[2]
The following poem by her was included as No. 65 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:
| Japanese text[8] | Romanized Japanese[9] | English translation[10] |
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She produced a private collection, the Sagami-shū (相模集).[11]
References
edit- ^ Ueno 1983a, p. 36; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014; Digital Daijisen 1998.
- ^ a b McMillan 2010, 143 (note 65).
- ^ Ueno 1983a, p. 36; Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Ueno 1983a, p. 36.
- ^ a b Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014; McMillan 2010, 143 (note 65).
- ^ a b Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten 2014.
- ^ Ueno 1983a, p. 36; Digital Daijisen 1998; McMillan 2010, 143 (note 65).
- ^ Suzuki et al. 2009, p. 84.
- ^ McMillan 2010, p. 168.
- ^ McMillan 2010, p. 67.
- ^ Digital Daijisen 1998; McMillan 2010, 143 (note 65).
Works cited
edit- "Sagami". Britannica Kokusai Dai-Hyakkajiten (in Japanese). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2014. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
- "Sagami". Daijisen (in Japanese). Shogakukan. 1998. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
- Keene, Donald (1999). A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart — Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.
- McMillan, Peter (2010). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each — A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Suzuki, Hideo; Yamaguchi, Shin'ichi; Yoda, Yasushi (2009). Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Tokyo: Bun'eidō.
- Ueno, Satoru (1983a). "Sagami". Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 3. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. pp. 36–37. OCLC 11917421.
- Ueno, Satoru (1983b). "Sagami-shū". Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 3. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. pp. 37–38. OCLC 11917421.
External links
edit- Sagami's poems in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies's online waka database.
- Sagami-shū in the same database.
- Sagami on Kotobank.