mid-Heian period · 988–?Priest Nōin

A mid-Heian monk-poet, born Tachibana no Nagayasu, who abandoned a scholarly career for the priesthood at about twenty-six and settled at Kosobe in Settsu. A pupil of Fujiwara no Nagatō, he is regarded as the first poet to have formally received the art from a master. He traveled widely to visit famous places of poetry and wrote a handbook of poetic place-names as well as a private anthology. One of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Immortals, he has about sixty-five poems in imperial anthologies. His Hyakunin Isshu poem pictures maple leaves blown from Mount Mimuro into the Tatsuta River.