Fujiwara Teika
crates | June 30, 2009
Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241) is considered by many to be the preeminent Japanese poet. As a poet, diarist and critic, his influence on premodern Japanese poetry is unsurpasssed.
His poetry specialized almost exclusively in the waka, the dominant lyrical form of the Japanese classical period, a five-line poem consisting of thirty-one syllables, arranged in measures of five syllables, then seven, [...]
