Dōin

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.[1][2] His given name was Fujiwara no Atsuyori.[2]

He served as Lieutenant of the Stables of the Left.[1] He entered religion in 1172.[1][2]

He died in around 1179.[1]

Poetry

Forty-one of his poems were included in imperial anthologies from the Senzai Wakashū on.[1][2]

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

Japanese text[3]Romanized Japanese[4]English translation[5]
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.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 McMillan 2010 : 146 (note 82).
  2. 1 2 3 4 Daijirin entry "Fujiwara no Atsuyori". Sanseidō.
  3. Suzuki et al. 2009 : 103.
  4. McMillan 2010 : 171.
  5. McMillan 2010 : 84.

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