Nijō Yoshimoto
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Yoshimoto's wife gave birth to Nijō Moroyoshi. With another woman, he had sons Nijō Morotsugu and Ichijō Tsunetsugu.
Career as government official
Yoshimoto held the regent position of kampaku three times (from 1346 to 1347,[1] from 1363 to 1367, and in 1388), and that of sesshō twice (from 1382 to 1388, and in 1388).
- 1381 (Eitoku 1, 7th month): Yoshimoto is made Daijō Daijin.[2]
- 1387 (Kakei 1, 1st month): Yoshimoto is deprived of his position as daijō daijin.[3]
- 1388 (Kakei 2, 6th month): Yoshitomo dies at age 69; and his son Nijō Morotsugu succeeds him with the title of kampaku.[3]
Scholar-poet
Yoshimoto learned waka from Ton'a and renga from Gusai and Kyūsei. He regarded himself primarily as a waka poet;[4] he authored several treatises on the subject. It is for renga that he is best known. By the age of thirty, he was regarded as an authority on the subject. He authored a number of books including:
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- Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., the first edited collection of renga
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., general discourse on renga in question-answer style
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., a discussion of renga style; co-authored with Ton'a
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., a text on renga rules
- Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., a treatise on waka poetics
Historian
The author of Masukagami is unknown, but it is believed that Nijō Yoshimoto had a hand in its writing. The book is a Japanese historical tale describing events understood to have occurred between 1368 and 1376.[5]
His diary, Kuchi-ura, "gives considerable detail" of the Northern Court.[6]
Notes
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- ↑ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 297.
- ↑ Titsingh, p. 316.
- ↑ a b Titsingh, p. 318.
- ↑ Miner, Earl Roy. (1980) Japanese Linked Poetry, p. 20.
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric et al. (2005). "Masu-kagami" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 615.
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References
- Miner, Earl Roy. (1980). Japanese Linked Poetry: an Account with Translations of Renga and Haikai Sequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Template:ISBN; Template:Catalog lookup link
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- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 48943301
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 84067437
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