入道前太政大臣

Japanese

Kanji in this term
にゅう
Grade: 1
どう
Grade: 2
さき
Grade: 2
だい
Grade: 2
しょう > じょう
Grade: 5
だい
Grade: 1
じん
Grade: 4
goon kun’yomi kan’yōon goon

Etymology

Literally “former chancellor and lay novice”.[1]

Proper noun

入道太政大臣 (hiragana にゅうどうさきのだいじょうだいじん, rōmaji Nyūdō Saki no Daijō-daijin, historical hiragana にふだうさきのだいじやうだいじん)

  1. courtesy title of Saionji Kintsune, Kamakura-period poet and nobleman
    • 1235, Shinchokusen Wakashū (book 16, poem 1052 by the lay priest and former Chancellor [Kintsune]; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 96)
       (はな)さそふ (あらし) (には) (ゆき)ならでふりゆくものはわが ()なりけり
      hana sasou arashi no niwa no yuki narade furi yuku mono wa waga mi narikeri
      (please add an English translation of this example)

References

  1. Joshua S. Mostow (1996) Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image, illustrated edition, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 424
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