mid-Heian period · 924–972Fujiwara no Koretada

A mid-Heian statesman, eldest son of Fujiwara no Morosuke and uncle of Michinaga. He became regent in 970 and Chancellor of the Realm, but died in 972 at forty-nine; Kentoku-kō is his posthumous title. He supervised the scholars of the Pear Chamber who compiled the Gosenshū, and his personal collection presents his poems as the love story of a fictional man named Toyokage. He was the father of the poet Fujiwara no Yoshitaka. His Hyakunin Isshu poem, from the Shūishū, laments dying unpitied by the one he loves.