Nijō Yoshimoto
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Nijō Yoshimoto (二条 良基? 1320-1388), son of regent Nijō Michihira, was a Japanese kugyō (court noble), waka poet and renga master of the early Muromachi period (1336–1573).
He held the regent positions of kampaku three times, from 1346 to 1351, from 1363 to 1367, and in 1388, and sesshō twice, from 1382 to 1388 and in 1388. His wife gave birth to Nijō Moroyoshi. With another woman he had sons Nijō Morotsugu and Ichijō Tsunetsugu.
Yoshimoto learned waka from Ton'a and renga from Gusai and Kyūsei. He regarded himself primarily as a waka poet[1], and authored several treatises on the subject, yet it is for renga that he is best known. By the age of thirty, he was regarded as an authority on the subject. He authored a number of books including:
- Renri Hishō (連理秘抄 A Secret Treatise of Renga Principles?, c. 1349), a text on renga poetics
- Tsukubashū (菟玖波集 The Tsukuba Collection?, c. 1356), the first edited collection of renga
- Tsukuba Mondō (筑波問答 The Tsukuba Dialogues?, 1357-1372), general discourse on renga in question-answer style
- Gumonkenchū (愚問賢註? 1363), a discussion of renga style; co-authored with Ton'a
- Ōan Shinshiki (応安新式? c. 1372), a text on renga rules
- Kinrai Fūteishō (近来風体抄? 1387), a treatise on waka poetics
[edit] Notes
- ^ Miner, Earl Roy, Japanese linked poetry, Princeton University Press, 1980, ISBN 0-691-01368-3 pbk. p.20
