was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period. His exact dates of birth and death are unknownMcMillan 2010 : 139-140 (note 46).MyPedia article "Sone no Yoshitada". 2007. Hitachi Systems & Services.Britannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten article "Sone no Yoshitada". 2007. Britannica Japan Co.Digital Daijisen entry "Sone no Yoshitada". Shogakukan. but he flourished in the second half of the tenth century. He was one of the Thirty-six Immortals of Poetry and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.Suzuki et al. 2009 : 60.
Because he was a of Tango Province he is occasionally known by the nicknames and . He was known as an eccentric individual with numerous anecdotes told about him. He was not well regarded in his own time but later was recognized as a highly innovative poet, with roughly 90 of his poems appearing in imperial anthologies.
The following poem by him was No. 46 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: Japanese textRomanized JapaneseMcMillan 2010 : 164.English translationMcMillan 2010 : 48.由良のとを 渡る舟人 かぢをたえ 行くへも知らぬ 恋の道かなYura no to wo wataru funa-bito kaji-wo tae yukue mo shiranu koi no michi kanaCrossing the Straits of Yura the boatman lost the rudder. The boat's adrift not knowing where it goes. Is the course of love like this?
References
Bibliography 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.