Fujiwara no Kiyosuke

Fujiwara no Kiyosuke (1104-1177) was accounted by his contemporaries as the foremost expert in poetics of his day and engaged in extended debate with his father, Akisuke, during the latter's compilation of the Shikashû. While he managed to get several poems included in imperial anthologies, today Kiyosuke is reckoned to be only a mediocre practioner of the subject about which he knew so much, and is remembered chiefly for his Fukorozôshi, 'A Book of Folded Pages', which recounts his debates with his father and much else besides.

Kiyosuke has the following poems in the Japan 2001 Waka:

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