Fujiwara no Teika Quotes

poet and court noble (1162–1241)

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Fujiwara no Sadaie, better-known as Fujiwara no Teika (1162 – September 26, 1241), was a Japanese anthologist, calligrapher, literary critic, poet, and scribe of the late Heian and early Kamakura period

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Alternative Names: Sadaiye Fujiwara • Fujiwara Sadaie • Teika Tō • Fudžiwara no Teika • Fujiawara no Sadaie • Sada-ie Fujiwara • Fujiwara no Sadaie • Sadaie Fujiwara • Myojo • Fujiwara Seika • Teika To • Sadaie Fudžiwara • Teika Fudžiwara • Fujiwara Teika • Fujiwara Sadaiye • Teika Fujiwara • Teika

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There are no teachers of Japanese poetry. But they who take the old poems as their teachers, steep their minds in the old style, and learn their words from the masters of former time — who of them will fail to write poetry?

和歌に師匠なし。たゞ旧き歌をもつて師となす。心を古風に染め、詞を先達に習はば、誰人かこれを詠ぜざらんや。