A mid-Heian poet, a great-great-grandson of Emperor Kōkō who was given the surname Taira. He served as governor of several provinces and is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortals, with some ninety poems in imperial anthologies, and was a leading composer of screen poems. At the palace poetry contest of 960 his poem on hidden love was matched against Mibu no Tadami's; the judge could not decide until Emperor Murakami was heard murmuring Kanemori's verse, which was then declared the winner.
忍ぶれど 色に出でにけり わが恋は
物や思ふと 人の問ふまで
Shinoburedo iro ni idenikeri waga koi wa / mono ya omou to hito no tou made
I tried to hide it, but my love showed on my face all the same — so much that people asked me, 'Is something troubling you?'