Sone no Yoshitada (曾禰好忠) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. His exact dates of birth and death are unknown[1][2][3][4] but he flourished in the second half of the tenth century.[1] He was one of the Thirty-six Immortals of Poetry[2][4] and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.[1][5]
Because he was a secretary (掾, jō) of Tango Province he is occasionally known by the nicknames Sotango (曾丹後, a combination of the first character of his name with the name of the province) and Sotan (曾丹, a combination of the first characters of both his name and the province).[1][2][3][4][5] He was known as an eccentric individual[1][2] with numerous anecdotes told about him.[2][5] He was not well regarded in his own time but later was recognized as a highly innovative poet,[1][4] with roughly 90 of his poems appearing in imperial anthologies.[3]
The following poem by him was No. 46 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:
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- ^ a b c d e f McMillan 2010 : 139-140 (note 46).
- ^ a b c d e MyPedia article "Sone no Yoshitada". 2007. Hitachi Systems & Services.
- ^ a b c Britannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten article "Sone no Yoshitada". 2007. Britannica Japan Co.
- ^ a b c d Digital Daijisen entry "Sone no Yoshitada". Shogakukan.
- ^ a b c d Suzuki et al. 2009 : 60.
- ^ McMillan 2010 : 164.
- ^ McMillan 2010 : 48.