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Fujiwara no Kanesuke

Fujiwara no Kanesuke , also known as the Riverbank Middle Counselor , was a middle Heian-period waka poet and Japanese nobleman. He is designated as a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.

Poetry
Kanesuke's poems are included in several imperial poetry anthologies, including Kokin Wakashū and Gosen Wakashū. A personal poetry collection known as the Kanesuke-shū also remains. The Tale of Heike contains "an almost direct quotation" of his poem in the Gosenshū (no. 1102). The passage goes, "...as clear as a father's understanding may be in all other matters, love blinds him when it comes to his own child." One of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu: ==See also==
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