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Ki no Tsurayuki紀貫之alternative words: Kino Tsurayuki, Tsurayuki Kino, Tsurayuki keywords: artist , famous person , poesy , writer related topics: Kokinwakashu , Heian period , Waka related web sites: http://tourism.rikkyo.ac.jp/yasujima/kikoubun/sugata/ explanation: Poet and bureaucrat of Heian period. Born in a family of middle class bureaucrat in 872. Talented in waka (Japanese poems), he became the leading compiler of Konkinshu in 905 and added Kokinwakashu jo which is the first known critic work on Japanese poems. Then, he was nominated to the governor of Kochi prefecture in 930. The diary written during his return trip to Kyoto in 935, Tosa diary (Tosa nikki), is an initiator of pure Japanese style prose. He died in 945. | |