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Oshikochi Mitsune
Japanese administrator and waka poet
Years: 859 - 925
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune is an early Heian administrator and waka poet of the Japanese court (859–925), and a member of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.
He is sent as the governor of Kai, Izumi and Awaji provinces, and on his return to Kyoto is asked to participate in the compilation of the Kokin Wakashū.
He is a master of poetic matches and his poems to accompany pictures on folding screens are widely admired for their quality.
His influence at the time is commensurate with Ki no Tsurayuki, and he has an unusually large number of poems (193) included in the official poetry collections.
He is known to many Japanese today as one of his poems is included in the famous anthology Hyakunin Isshu.
