mid-Heian period · 995–1045Fujiwara no Sadayori

A mid-Heian nobleman and poet, eldest son of Fujiwara no Kintō, who rose to Provisional Middle Counselor. He inherited his father's gifts in poetry, music and calligraphy and was admired for his sutra-chanting voice. He is remembered for teasing Koshikibu no Naishi about her mother writing her poems, only to be silenced by her brilliant retort. He also exchanged poems with the poet Sagami. One of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals, he has about forty-five poems in imperial anthologies. His Hyakunin Isshu poem describes fishing weirs emerging from the dawn mist on the Uji River.