was a Japanese waka poet and Confucian scholarMyPedia article "Ōe no Chisato". 2007. Hitachi Systems & Services. of the late ninth and early tenth centuries. His exact birth and death dates are unknownBritannica Kokusai Dai-hyakkajiten article "Ōe no Chisato". 2007. Britannica Japan Co.Digital Daijisen entry "Ōe no Chisato". Shogakukan. but he flourished around 889 to 923.McMillan 2010 : 136 (note 23). He was one of the Chūko Sanjūrokkasen and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.Suzuki et al. 2009 : 35.
He was a son of 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.
He was the author of the kudai waka, also known as the chisato-shū. A selection of waka based on lines from various Chinese poems.
The following poem by him was included as No. 23 in Fujiwara no Teika's Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: Japanese textRomanized JapaneseMcMillan 2010 : 159.English translationMcMillan 2010 : 25.月みれば ちぢにものこそ 悲しけれ わが身一つの 秋にはあらねどTsuki mireba chi-ji ni mono koso kanashikere wa ga mi hitotsu no aki ni wa aranedoLooking at the moon thoughts of a thousand things fill me with sadness— but autumn's dejection does not come to me alone.
References
Bibliography McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press. Suzuki Hideo, Yamaguchi Shin'ichi, Yoda Yasushi. 2009 (1st ed. 1997). Genshoku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Tokyo: Bun'eidō.