Ariwara no Narihira, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese writer, courtier and waka poet
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About Ariwara no Narihira
- Ariwara no Narihira (?? ??, 825–880) was a Japanese courtier and waka poet of the early Heian period.
- He was named one of both the Six Poetic Geniuses and the Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses, and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu collection.
- He is also known as Zai Go-Chujo, Zai Go, Zai Chujo or Mukashi-Otoko. There are 87 poems attributed to Narihira in court anthologies, though some attributions are dubious.
- Narihira's poems are exceptionally ambiguous; the compilers of the 10th-century Kokin Wakashu thus treated them to relatively long headnotes. Narihira's many renowned love affairs have exerted a profound influence on later Japanese culture.
- Legends have held that he had affairs with the high priestess of the Ise Grand Shrine and the poet Ono no Komachi, and that he fathered Emperor Yozei.
- His love affairs inspired The Tales of Ise, and he has ever since been a model of the handsome, amorous nobleman.
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