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Akazome Emon

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Japanese poet
In thisJapanese name, thesurname is Akazome.
Akazome Emon depicted in c. 1765ink and colorKusazōshi byKomatsuken

Akazome Emon (赤染衛門, late 950s or early 960s – 1041 or later) was aJapanesewaka poet and early historian who lived in the mid-Heian period. She is a member both of theThirty Six Elder Poetic Sages (中古三十六歌仙,Chūko Sanjūrokkasen) and theThirty Six Female Poetic Sages (女房三十六歌仙,Nyōbō Sanjūrokkasen).

Biography

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Akazome Emon's year of birth is unknown,[1] but she was likely born betweenTentoku 1 (957) andKōhō 1 (964).[1] She was officially the daughter of Akazome Tokimochi (赤染時用),[1][2] but the late-Heian karonsho (book of poeticcriticism)Fukuro-zōshi [ja] records that her biological father was her mother's first husband,Taira no Kanemori.[1]

A poetic exchange between Emon andFujiwara no Michitaka, dating to aroundTen'en 2 (974) toJōgen 2 (977),[1] when she was likely in her late teens, is the earliest dateable event in her life.[1] At roughly this time, she went to serve in the household ofMinamoto no Masanobu,[1][3] and for a long time thereafter she served his daughterRinshi (ja), the wife ofFujiwara no Michinaga.[1][2][4]

It was also around this time (Ten'en–Jōgen) that she marriedŌe no Masahira [ja],[1] aConfucian scholar and poet of bothwaka andkanshi.[5][6] They had a son,Ōe no Takachika [ja],[1] a daughter,Gō Jijū (江侍従),[1] and one more daughter.[1] The couple were considered to be "lovebirds" (おしどり夫婦,oshidori fūfu).[citation needed]

According to her personalwaka collection, theAkazome Emon Shū (赤染衛門集), when Masahira was twice sent to serve inOwari Province, she accompanied him both times.[1][7] The collection also indicates that she worked to ensure her son's professional success at court[1] and presented poems as offerings to Sumiyoshi Shrine[clarification needed] when he fell ill.[1][8][9] TheFukuro-zōshi portrays her as gently supporting her husband when he was overwhelmed by his official duties.[1][8] These works present Emon as a good wife and wise mother (良妻賢母ryōsai kenbo).[1] She also devoted much effort to her service as Rinshi's lady-in-waiting.[1]

InChōwa 1 (1012), her husband died,[1] and a few years later Emon became anun.[1][10][11] She apparently lived a long and tranquil life from this point,[1] living to see the birth of her great-grandsonŌe no Masafusa inChōkyū 2 (1041).[1][12]

Akazome Emon servedMinamoto no Rinshi andFujiwara no Shōshi, who were, respectively, the wife and daughter ofFujiwara no Michinaga, and she was present at the Imperial court at the same time asIzumi Shikibu.[13][14][15][2] She was a contemporary ofMurasaki Shikibu, who praised her writing, andSei Shōnagon.[16]

The year of her death is uncertain,[1] but she probably lived until at least 1041.[1]

Poetry and other writings

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Emon remained active inwaka composition until late in life,[1] contributing poems touta-awase competitions on the sixteenth day of the fifth month ofChōgen 8 (1035), theKanpaku-Sadaijin-ke Uta-awase (関白左大臣家歌合),[1] and 1041, theKokiden no Nyōgo Uta-awase (弘徽殿女御歌合).[1][17][18] She also contributed ascreen poem (屏風歌byōbu-uta) to celebrate Rinshi's seventieth year, in 1033.[1][9]

She left apersonal collection, theAkazome Emon Shū,[1] and she is also believed to have been the writer of the first part ofEiga Monogatari.[1][19][20] Her poetry was incorporated intocourt anthologies from theShūi Wakashū on.[1] She ranks fourth in the number of her poems that were included in theGoshūi Wakashū,[1][21][22] with a total of 32.[1] More than 60 of her poems were included in theKin'yō Wakashū and later court anthologies.[1]

In her article on Emon,Hiroko Saitō called her poetic style unexceptional.

References

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  1. ^abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahSaitō 1986, p. 3.
  2. ^abcMostow, Joshua S. (1996-01-01).Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. University of Hawaii Press.ISBN 978-0-8248-1705-3.
  3. ^Bary, Wm Theodore De; Gluck, Carol; Tiedemann, Arthur (2002-04-10).Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600. Columbia University Press.ISBN 978-0-231-51805-5.
  4. ^Fu, Charles Wei-hsun; Heine, Steven (1995-07-01).Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives. State University of New York Press.ISBN 978-1-4384-0344-1.
  5. ^Egerton, George W. (1994).Political Memoir: Essays on the Politics of Memory. Psychology Press.ISBN 978-0-7146-3471-5.
  6. ^Watanabe, Takeshi (2021-01-11).Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan. BRILL.ISBN 978-1-68417-609-0.
  7. ^Hérail, Francine; Fujiwara, Michinaga (1993).Poèmes de Fujiwara no Michinaga: ministre à la cour de Hei.an (995-1018) (in French). Librairie Droz.ISBN 978-2-600-03327-5.
  8. ^abIchien, Mujū; Morrell, Robert E. (1985-01-01).Sand and Pebbles: The Tales of Mujū Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism. SUNY Press.ISBN 978-0-88706-059-5.
  9. ^abSato, Hiroaki (2014-12-18).Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology: An Anthology. Routledge.ISBN 978-1-317-46696-3.
  10. ^Kōdansha (1983).Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Kodansha.ISBN 978-0-87011-620-9.
  11. ^Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. Columbia University Press. 1999.ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.
  12. ^Shirane, Haruo (1987).The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji'. Stanford University Press.ISBN 978-0-8047-1719-9.
  13. ^Bhattacharya, Sagnik (2015-11-12).A Hundred Autumn Leaves: The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: Translated and Annotated. Partridge Publishing.ISBN 978-1-4828-5919-5.
  14. ^Egerton, George W. (1994).Political Memoir: Essays on the Politics of Memory. Psychology Press.ISBN 978-0-7146-3471-5.
  15. ^Kawashima, Terry (2020-10-26).Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan. BRILL.ISBN 978-1-68417-356-3.
  16. ^Rexroth, Kenneth; 渥美育子 (1982).Women Poets of Japan. New Directions Publishing.ISBN 978-0-8112-0820-8.
  17. ^Ito, Setsuko (1991).An Anthology of Traditional Japanese Poetry Competitions: Uta-awase (913-1815). Brockmeyer.ISBN 978-3-88339-948-5.
  18. ^Shinkokinshū (2 vols): New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern. BRILL. 2015-02-24.ISBN 978-90-04-28829-4.
  19. ^Drott, Edward R. (2016-05-31).Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan. University of Hawaii Press.ISBN 978-0-8248-6686-0.
  20. ^Brownlee, John S. (2006-01-01).Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712). Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press.ISBN 978-0-88920-874-2.
  21. ^Yip, Leo Shingchi (2016-04-04).China Reinterpreted: Staging the Other in Muromachi Noh Theater. Lexington Books.ISBN 978-1-4985-2060-7.
  22. ^Shika Waka Shu; Compiled by Fujiwara Akisuke; Translated by Donald M. Richardson. 1995.

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