入道前太政大臣

入道前太政大臣

Japanese

Kanji in this term
入	道	前	太	政	大	臣
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

入道前太政大臣(にゅうどうさきのだいじょうだいじん) • (Nyūdō Saki no Daijō-daijin) ^{←にふだうさきのだいじやうだいじん (nifudausakinodaizyaudaizin)?}

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)

     花(はな)さそふ嵐(あらし)の庭(には)の雪(ゆき)ならでふりゆくものはわが身(み)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