Fujiwara no Sadayori

Fujiwara no Sadayori (995–1045) was a mid-Heian noble and poet of the Ononomiya Fujiwara line, eldest son of the poet Fujiwara no Kinto. He rose through court posts to senior second rank in 1042, though Regent Yorimichi reprimanded him in 1019 and in 1030 he was caught cheating at a palace contest.

Remembered as one of the Late Classical Thirty-Six Poets, he appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. He took vows in 1044 and died in 1045 aged fifty-one.