Fujiwara no Michinobu was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. One of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. He produced a private waka collection, the Michinobu-shū.
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Fujiwara no Michinobu, from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Katsushika Hokusai, The Poem of Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason, 1839, Princeton University Art Museum, depicting the poem transcribed in the cartouche at upper right:
Though I know full well
That the night will come again,
E'en when day has dawned;
Yet, in truth, I hate the sight,
Of the morning's coming light.In their orbit 1
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About this person
Country
JapanCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 972 to 994 · aged 22
Written about in
9 languages
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