The leading arbiter of taste at the court of Emperor Ichijō, eldest son of the chancellor Fujiwara no Yoritada. Famed for excelling equally in Japanese poetry, Chinese verse and music, he compiled the Wakan Rōeishū anthology of verses for chanting and the Shūishō, chose the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals, and wrote influential treatises on waka. He rose to Provisional Major Counselor and has about ninety poems in imperial anthologies. His Hyakunin Isshu poem reflects on a long-silent waterfall at Daikaku-ji whose fame still flows on.
滝の音は 絶えて久しく なりぬれど
名こそ流れて なほ聞こえけれ
The sound of the waterfall ceased long ago, yet its name still flows on, and is heard throughout the world.
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