was a Japanese samurai and waka poet of the early Kamakura period.Britannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten article "Utsunomiya Yoritsuna". 2007. Britannica Japan Co.Digital Daijisen entry "Utsunomiya Yoritsuna". Shogakukan.
Family His father was . He married a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa.
After entering Buddhist orders, he took the name , and was also known as .
Poetry He was a close friend of Fujiwara no Teika and his daughter married Teika's son Tameie.Keene 1999 : 738 (note 28).McMillan 2010 : xxv. He is also said to have commissioned Teika's compilation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.Shinshu University Faculty of Arts Japanese Literature Course Outline . December 2009. The collection was originally prepared (in a slightly different form to the present Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) to in Yoritsuna's Mt. Ogura residence in the Saga district of Kyoto.Suzuki et al. 2009 : 2.
He was the head of one of the chief poetic houses of the Kamakura period.
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