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Japanese samurai and poet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Utsunomiya Yoritsuna (宇都宮頼綱) was a Japanese samurai and waka poet of the early Kamakura period.[1][2]
His father was Utsunomiya Naritsuna (宇都宮成綱).[1] He married a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa.[1][2]
After entering Buddhist orders, he took the name Renshō (蓮生),[1][2] and was also known as Ogura Nyūdō (小倉入道, "the monk of Ogura").[1]
He was a close friend of Fujiwara no Teika[1][2] and his daughter married Teika's son Tameie.[3][4] He is also said to have commissioned Teika's compilation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.[4][5] The collection was originally prepared (in a slightly different form to the present Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) to decorate screens (屏風歌, byōbu-uta, "screen-poems") in Yoritsuna's Mt. Ogura residence in the Saga district of Kyoto.[4][6]
He was the head of one of the chief poetic houses of the Kamakura period.[4]
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