Dōin

Japanese waka poet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dōin (道因; 1090 — c. 1179; given name Fujiwara no Atsuyori 藤原 敦頼) was a Japanese waka poet of the late-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, and forty-one of his poems were included in imperial collections.

Priest Dōin (道因法師, Dōin-hōshi), from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu

Biography

He was born in 1090.[1][2] His given name was Fujiwara no Atsuyori.[2]

He served as Lieutenant of the Stables of the Left.[1] He entered religion in 1172.[1][2]

He died in around 1179.[1]

Poetry

Forty-one of his poems were included in imperial anthologies from the Senzai Wakashū on.[1][2]

The following poem by him was included as No. 82 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:

Japanese text[3]

思ひわび
さても命は
あるものを
憂きにたへぬは
涙なりけり

 Romanized Japanese[4]

Omoi-wabi
sate mo inochi wa
aru monowo
uki ni taenu wa
namida nari keri

 English translation[5]

Despite this suffering
I somehow stay alive
yet with all this pain
of loving you
I cannot stop my sadness
nor the tears that flow.

His private collections have not survived.[1]

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