Fujiwara no Kintō

Fujiwara no Kintō (966–1041), known as the Shijō Dainagon, was a Heian courtier, poet and calligrapher, the son of the regent Fujiwara no Yoritada. Admired by contemporaries including Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shōnagon, he laid the groundwork for the imperial anthology Shūi Wakashū with a draft collection made in 996–999.

He compiled the celebrated Wakan rōeishū of Chinese and Japanese verse and around 1009–1011 established the canon of the Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals. He is counted one of the Four Nagon, and his son was the poet Sadayori.