Dōin

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

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.

Biography

He was born in 1090. His given name was Fujiwara no Atsuyori.

He served as Lieutenant of the Stables of the Left. He entered religion in 1172.

He died in around 1179.

Poetry

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

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

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

English translation 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.

Bibliography

• Keene, Donald (1999). A History of Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: Seeds in the Heart — Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11441-7.
• McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Suzuki Hideo, Yamaguchi Shin'ichi, Yoda Yasushi. 2009 (1st ed. 1997). Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Tokyo: Bun'eidō.

External links

• List of Dōin's poems in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies's online waka database.
• Dōin (also listed as Fujiwara no Atsuyori) on Kotobank.