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Ōe no Chisato


Ōe no Chisato (大江千里?) was a Japanese waka poet and Confucian scholar of the late ninth and early tenth centuries. His exact birth and death dates are unknown but he flourished around 889 to 923. He was one of the Chūko Sanjūrokkasen and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

He was a son of Ōe no Otondo (大江音人?) and a nephew of Ariwara no Yukihira and Ariwara no Narihira. Ten of his poems were included in the Kokin Wakashū and fifteen in later imperial anthologies.

The following poem by him was included as No. 23 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu:



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